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Sufjan Stevens' second release, Enjoy Your Rabbit, is a vast departure from the pan-ethnic folk of his debut. Using almost no exterior samples, Stevens crafts an electronic, all-"instrumental" song cycle based on the symbols of the Chinese zodiac. While working within these considerably narrower confines, he still maps out a wide musical territory by using each symbol as a mode, each one exploring different textures and tempos and, in the process, evoking a surprising array of moods. At times eerie and ominous like a backwoods Autechre, other times sounding like more club-oriented fare, Stevens sometimes trades in bloops and bleeps for oblique glitches and crackles, but the underlying guiding principle is wide-eyed exploration that fills nearly every track with a sense of playfulness. Enjoy Your Rabbit never gets too serious, although at times it's very intense. Many tracks even have some sort of musical pun working just under the surface; for instance, "Year of the Horse" is by far the longest, clocking in at over 13 minutes, and "Year of the Ox" has a regular, heavy thudding beat.
Sufjan Stevens
Enjoy Your Rabbit
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AllMusic Review by Jason Nickey
Track Listing
| Sample | Title/Composer | Performer | Time | Stream | |||
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| 1 | 0:24 | SpotifyAmazon | |||||
| 2 | 4:20 | SpotifyAmazon | |||||
| 3 | 8:22 | SpotifyAmazon | |||||
| 4 | 4:01 | SpotifyAmazon | |||||
| 5 | 3:55 | SpotifyAmazon | |||||
| 6 | 4:24 | SpotifyAmazon | |||||
| 7 | 6:47 | SpotifyAmazon | |||||
| 8 | 3:34 | SpotifyAmazon | |||||
| 9 | 6:24 | SpotifyAmazon | |||||
| 10 | 9:26 | SpotifyAmazon | |||||
| 11 | 4:47 | SpotifyAmazon | |||||
| 12 | 4:52 | SpotifyAmazon | |||||
| 13 | 13:18 | SpotifyAmazon | |||||
| 14 | 4:30 | SpotifyAmazon |
