I reviewed the new Sufjan Stevens album for URB. This was my favorite lines in the review, "The Age of Adz almost foreshadows a collapse of self but really if we all self collapse does then not the world wither away?"


The PDF I received for the album also had a collection of works by Prophet Royal Albertson. Here's a quote from the press info on Sufjan Stevens page:

These themes are best illustrated in the album’s namesake. The Age of Adz refers to the Apocalyptic art of Royal Robertson (1930 –1997), a black Louisiana-based sign-maker (and self-proclaimed prophet) who suffered from schizophrenia, and whose work depicts the artist’s vivid dreams and visions of space aliens, futuristic automobiles, eccentric monsters, and signs of the Last Judgment, all cloaked in a confusing psychobabble of biblical prophecy, numerology, Nordic mythology and comic book jargon. Portions of the album use Robertson’s work as a springboard into a cosmic consciousness in which basic instincts are transposed on a tableau of extraordinary scenes of divine wrath, environmental catastrophe, and personal loss. In Robertson’s imagination, guns, lasers, gargoyles, and warring battleships upend the sins of mankind with the pageantry of a Hollywood B-movie. (A selection of Robertson’s work adds extraordinary color to the album art as well). 

I'll post like three of them, not sure if I can or not :| I wish I had received a physical copy of this because these works are really beautiful. You'll have to buy the album (out October 12) to get that pdf or if you get a physical copy. You can read my review on urb.com

Labels: Age of Adz, Prophet Royal Albertson, Sufjan Stevens

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