I Found Recovery
Jeremy Casella, a very good musician and an even nicer guy—yes, Sufjan Stevens, I’m in the risk of “friend rock” here—passed along a great gift to me tonight: MP3s from his upcoming release, Recovery. Tomorrow, you’ll be able to pre-order this record on his site. I’ll post about it tomorrow on the appropriate places, but tonight … tonight I just want to steep in the goodness that is this record.
Jeremy, you have made a great work of art here. It has grabbed me and will not let me go. I don’t want to sleep tonight. I just want to listen to this record. In fact, I might put it on the stereo in my room and listen to it all night.
[And if you're saying to yourself, "Hey, is the title of this entry an Eric Peters allusion?" you not only win a donut but free tickets to see EP and Randall Goodgame on Saturday night here in my hometown.]
I’m jealous.
May 4th, 2007 at 8:06 am[...] I’ve had this album since Thursday night, and it’s all I want to listen to right now. There are just so many facets of this finely-crafted record that I can’t begin to describe them all to you. Andy Osenga and Matthew Smith have both raved about this to me, and when I talked to Derek a couple weeks ago about it, he said, “I haven’t heard it, but everyone I know who has just won’t shut up about it.” For good reason. [...]
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