Sufjan Stevens sneaks out new EP

Indie hero Sufjan Stevens surreptitiously slips out an hour-long EP with no warning!

Almost five years after his breakthrough album Illinois, Sufjan has been fiddling around with some interesting experiments.

There was 2006's outtakes album The Avalanche and a Christmas record.

Then in 2009 he released an experimental, instrumental musing on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, called The BQE.

But fans have been waiting around a while for a proper album (or even another edition of his 50 States project, since he's only done two).

A few days ago, the enigmatic character released an EP online via Asthmatic Kitty, called All Delighted People.

It's apparently an hour-long "homage to the Apocalypse, existential ennui, and Paul Simon's 'Sounds of Silence'."

At eight songs but 59 minutes and 15 seconds, it's an album in anything else but name.

http://sufjanstevens.bandcamp.com/