I'm totally with Tom on this.  Although he's in desperate need of an 
editor who will curb his excesses, Sufjan's got some very cool musical 
ideas.  However, I think his presentation of same goes beyond 
too-cute-by-half into just plain smarmily pretentious.  (For some 
reason, the promo photos particularly bug me.)  It's like if Max 
Fischer grew up to become an indiepop singer.

S

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Hutton" <bobhutton@btinternet.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 3:34 PM
Subject: Sufjan Stevens


> Interesting article, puncturing the critics' favourite's balloon. 
> Or attempting to, anyway.
>
>
> http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=61::67KP
>