A Sun Came

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A Sun Came
A Sun Came cover
Studio album by Sufjan Stevens
Released June 13, 2000
Recorded 1998,
2nd Ed. Track 20 2001, Track 21 2004
Genre Folk rock
Length 69:56
2nd Ed. 78:52
Label Orchard
Producer Sufjan Stevens
Professional reviews
Sufjan Stevens chronology
A Sun Came
(2000)		 Enjoy Your Rabbit
(2001)
2004 Reissue Cover
2004 Reissue Cover

A Sun Came is a folk rock music album by Sufjan Stevens, released in 2000. It was reissued on Asthmatic Kitty Records 4 years later.

[edit] Sound

Among Stevens' back catalog, A Sun Came is notable for being recorded on 4 track. As noted in the All Music Guide review of the album, the album explores many types of ethnic music from throughout the globe, ranging from Celtic, Indian, Middle Eastern, Moroccan, Far Eastern and American folk music [1].

Stevens himself has described the album's sound as incorporating "traditional pop music, medieval instrumentation with Middle Eastern inflections, tape loops, digital samples, literary vocals, manic percussion, woodwinds, sitar, amp distortion and Arabic chants" [2].

Like many Stevens albums that would follow, features a multitude of instruments ranging from banjo, sitar, oboe and xylophone. All in all the album features Stevens playing fourteen instruments [3].

"Joy! Joy! Joy!" was recorded for the 2001 re-release and "You Are the Rake," a reworking of "Rake," was recorded for the 2004 re-release.

"Belly Button" and "Satan's Saxophone" feature high pitched field recordings with absurdist humor reminiscent of the calendar dated tracks off Beck's Stereopathetic Soulmanure (1994).

[edit] Track listing

  1. "We Are What You Say" – 5:20
  2. "A Winner Needs a Wand" – 5:24
  3. "Rake" – 2:48
  4. "Siamese Twins" – 0:15
  5. "Demetrius" – 6:01
  6. "Dumb I Sound" – 5:49
  7. "Wordsworth's Ridge (For Fran Frike)" – 4:54
  8. "Belly Button" – 0:09
  9. "Rice Pudding" – 2:24
  10. "A Loverless Bed (Without Remission)" – 6:17
  11. "Godzuki" – 0:36
  12. "Super Sexy Woman" – 2:42
  13. "The Oracle Said Wander" – 5:39
  14. "Happy Birthday" – 2:45
  15. "Jason" – 6:10
  16. "Kill" – 4:26
  17. "Ya Leil" – 5:38
  18. "A Sun Came" – 2:11
  19. "Satan's Saxophones" – 2:31
  20. "Joy! Joy! Joy!" (reissue bonus track) – 3:23
  21. "You Are the Rake" (reissue bonus track) – 3:02
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