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Arriving at one of the last albums I listened to from Sufjan (I'll do his newer stuff at some point), "Convocations" is a concept album disguised as a ambient album. The meaning of this lengthy 2 hour record was to convey the five stages of grief as well as reflecting on his mental health after losing his father. I'll be honest, I listened to this album twice in its entirety and I don't want to do it again. This 49 track album is entirely instrumental with a few ambient ... read more

"The BQE" is one of Sufjan's most underrated albums IMO. Written for a live show and an artistic representation of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, this classical, romantic-like orchestral album is filled with beautiful composition and an engaging runtime! I've listened to this album around 50 times by now and each listen almost leaves me filled with the sense of joy that the first listen captured me with. While not a perfect record by any means, it's still one of the ... read more

Kind of forgot that "Aphoria" was technically apart of Sufjan's discography, so I figure I'd throw my two cents in on this. "Aporia" was a collaboration album between Sufjan and his step-father Lowell Brams. While little is known about the origins of this album, it's more than likely a compilation of songs they worked on together thrown in one record. While some call this new age, it mostly falls more under ambient in my opinion. I should state, this album ... read more

MGMT's first album has some incredible high's and some pretty mediocre lows, which is funny considering one of their goals for this album was to make generic pop songs that would be big hits, which I'd say they succeeded! As a pop album, it's pretty solid and there's lots of tracks on this record that were generational hits, but you'd be hard pressed to do full back-to-back listens like many other pop albums. It's one of those rare albums I'd recommend ... read more