Sufjan Releases Arkansas Next Week; Joins Scientology
Are you ready to visit The Natural State? Far away from the BQE, Sufjan Stevens has announced Arkansas as the third state in his Fifty States Project and he’s releasing the new album Raconteurs-style next week! More surprisingly, Soof accredits his discovery of Scientology late last year for helping him complete his new musical project. Although Soof has previously expressed disinterest in publicly discussing his faith and his publicist has requested that interviewers avoid the topic, the Illinoise-maker offered the following statement on spirituality and Arkansas:
“The single greatest thing that studying Scientology has done for me is that it’s helped me become less restricted to create life and art as I want to, without being thrown off from my objectives. Despite misconceptions, Scientology is open to people of all faiths and I still regard myself as a Christian. Through my studies of Scientology, however, I’ve been enabled to write more music, become quicker in the composing process, and able to intuitively access more of the musical abilities that I possess. One of the big successes I’ve experienced was completing Arkansas. The new album was not only completed in record time for me, it exemplifies how I have learned to handle and remove my own self-imposed barriers and restraints. This freedom has been hard-won and I anticipate that you’ll hear great rewards. This is life through Scientology. This is Arkansas.”
Arkansas is expected to be available through iTunes one week from today, with vinyl and CD versions to follow shortly. However, two tracks (”The Lord God Bird” and “Retrieve The Lady Baxter! Ready Her For Battle!”) have leaked ahead of its release and sound musically/thematically familiar. The first track is a hymn to the ivory-billed woodpecker recently rediscovered in a small farming town and the latter is an instrumental ode to a cannon that rests at the oldest surviving state capitol west of the Mississippi River. Hypeful knows Soof declared rock dead, but still hopes the new disc has some “In The Words Of The Governor” moments on it. Check out the new tracks below and have a happy April Fools’ Day!
MP3s:
Sufjan Stevens - “The Lord God Bird”
Sufjan Stevens - “Retrieve The Lady Baxter! Ready Her For Battle!”
- Happy April Fools’ Day: No Arkansas Or Scientology For Sufjan
- New Sufjan Stevens - “Sofia’s Song”
- Sufjan Talks The BQE; Declares Rock “Dead”
“Soof accredits his discovery of Scientology late last year for helping him complete his new musical project.”
April Fools? I hope?
Nice April Fools on the scientology part. Did a little googling, nothing comes up but hypeful for the quote. But well done, very well done!
[...] Georgia, but Xenu Sufjan ain’t headed to Arkansas. As most of you caught, yesterday’s post about Sufjan releasing Arkansas and joining Scientology was an April 1st prank. However, “The Lord God Bird” is an actual Sufjan track he previously [...]
What is that second song? Sufjan’s?
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[...] If you caught last week’s review of Black Shampoo (a.k.a. Wilco) playing at The Cavern in Dallas, I am sure some of you will be relieved to hear that the unreal-sounding gig was just that - a piece of pure concert fan-fiction (the first of its genre?) courtesy of Hypeful contributor Nico intended not to defraud, but to entertain. I didn’t realize the review was intended as a joke until after it went up and despite having “removed” it from the site, the post apparantly lives on courtesy of Google Cache. (A ghost is born!) Despite being up for a limited time, this completely unintended hoax may’ve accidentally fooled more people than Hypeful’s April Fools gag about Sufjan converting to Scientology. [...]
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wait sufjan did not convert to scientology? is this april fools?