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Sufjan Stevens: Royal Festival Hall, London

Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 4 September 2015

IN AN INTERVIEW with The Quietus' Jeremy Allen in October 2010, with music streaming still in its relative infancy, Sufjan Stevens opined that technological change "kind of allows us to be less anxious about the album as an event and its considerable aesthetic and economic leverage… I think the album can now be much more casual."

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