Stevens,Sufjan, Angelo De Augustine - A Beginner's Mind

NEW VINYL LP ON ASTHMATIC KITTY 2021

180 GRAM VINYL

A Beginner’s Mind began when the two musicians and Asthmatic Kitty labelmates decamped to a friend’s cabin in upstate New York for a month-long songwriting sabbatical. Watching a movie to unwind after each day’s work, they soon found their songs reflecting the films and began investigating this connection in earnest. The resulting album is 14 songs (loosely) based on (mostly) popular films—highbrow, lowbrow, and everything in between. They wrote in tandem—one person writing a verse, the other a chorus, churning out chord progressions and lyrics willy-nilly, often finishing each other’s sentences in the process. Rigorous editing and rewriting ensued. The results are less a “cinematic exegesis” and more a “rambling philosophical inquiry” that allows the songs to free-associate at will. Plot-points, scene summaries, and leading characters are often displaced by esoteric interpolations that ask the bigger question: what does it mean to be human in a broken world?

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Tracklist

    Reach out
    Lady Macbeth In Chains
    Back To Oz
    The Pillar Of Souls
    You Give Death A Bad Name
    Beginner’s Mind
    Olympus
    Murder And Crime
    (This Is) The Thing
    It’s Your Own Body And Mind
    Lost In The World
    Fictional California
    Cimmerian Shade
    Lacrimae