Sufjan Stevens: A Beginner's Mind

LP Record Films in the evening, music in the morning It was once said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture (impossible and absurd). But what about singing about films? That is exactly the idea behind the new collaborative album by Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine, "A Beginner's Mind". They went about it like this: the American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist and his fellow American musician took some time out at a friend's cabin, watching films at night and writing songs together in the morning, swapping music and lyrics. In the end, they created 13 songs. These are loosely based on mostly popular films. The source material is sophisticated, accessible and everything in between.