Sufjan Stevens – The Age Of Adz

sounds brilliant, no pops or skips, even in the quieter parts

Without Age of Adz there would be now Carrie & Lowell.
I bought my copy in 2010 at his show when he performed in my hometown. It was an amazing performance (he was touring for AOA). The crowd was engaging - I remember it very distinctively. I was 14 or 15. Just getting into music. All of a sudden, I hear his work and think, "Ok, this is tangible. I can attach myself to this for a while." I went to the merch table at intermission and bought the copy that I have playing on my table right now. Flash forward, 10 years and I'm still listening to this music and trying to understand what it was that night that sent me into such a wonderfully foreign place. If there was one record I would say to own, it would be Age of Adz or Enjoy Your Rabbit/All Delighted People EP. They are highly accessible works, in terms of purchasing power. EYR isn't the world's greatest piece of music, but it does have remnants of what he assembled into ILLINOISE and MICHIGAN. ADP is what I think he did for other people, which would explain its directness. I don't own a copy or I'd review that. Anyway, my copy is sonically very quiet. I've kept really good care of the vinyl, though. It's a double LP, but worth it for the songs. They wouldn't fit on one LP. Peace ~ Nick.

not sure why the prices are so high on this you can get it for $30 with shipping from their site as of right now

I reached out to Asthmatic Kitty because of surface noise and poor quality of the sides C+D lp. Basically the same issues other people are having. They were super nice and offered to send a replacement but also said a repress of this album is in the works. Just a heads up to anyone thinking of picking this up to hold off and be on the lookout for the reissue that I'm sure will be much better quality.

Mine has a skip on "Impossible Soul," but in the most inadvertently perfect way: it's at the VERY end, and loops Sufjan saying "so impossible / so impossible / so impossible / so impossible." Thus, I now have access to FOUR equally excellent endings. Here they are, in order from saddest to happiest:

1) Vinyl (my defective edition): looping "so impossible" into infinity and beyond
2) Vinyl (standard edition): fading out on the desolate drone
3) Digital: the melancholy solace of "pleasure principle"
4) Live: the jump cut to "Chicago." All things grow! All things grow!

Very pleased with this - it's like a "choose your own adventure" book.

The mastering sounds pretty good, but the manufacturing quality is lacking. I had to enlarge the spindle hole on one disc, and both have a fairly persistent non-fill (ripping paper-ish sound). It’s a busy, dense album sound wise so the defects mostly get buried behind the music, but in quiet passages it is very annoying.

I've gotten two copies now from Amazon and I had to return both, because the holes on both disc would not fit over spindle. Has anyone else had this problem? It's a standard spindle and all my other records are no problem.

My first copy sounds terrible. Lot of distortions and surface noise, especially on sides A and C. I contacted Asthmatic Kitty and they send me replacement discs and they sound fantastic. No distortions and noise. Distorted discs have more green label and new ones are more blue. So if you record sounds terrible check the label colour, maybe it was faulty series.

I was expecting to have a booklet or a sheet with the lyrics, but oh well...

The repressing lp is not listed in discogs?
Thanks.