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Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly and James McAlister announce Planetarium album
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 29 March 2017
Sufjan Stevens, The National’s Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly and drummer James McAlister have announced that they will release an album together, titled ‘Planetarium’, on 9 Jun through 4AD.
The album is a new version of a composition they created for Dutch concert hall Muziekgebouw Eindhoven three years ago. “We had recorded all the arrangements and the live parts in a studio after our last performance”, says Stevens. “So years later when we all kind of settled down, we said, ‘let’s open Pandora’s box'”.
Here’s the video for the first single from the album, ‘Saturn’: