Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augestine - A Beginner's Mind universe inside and a bite of Nick

and a bite of Nick Cave's haunted bark

and a track from a previously unheard studio session

along with the stark and sinister ‘Pusherman’

setting aside the viola da gamba she is known for in exchange for all electronic instrumentation - Moog pedals and Critter and Guitari synthesizers

never fully relinquishing a grounding in a soulful sense swing and chordal structures

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augestine - A Beginner's Mind universe inside and a bite of NickSufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine will release a collaborative album, A Beginners Mind, on Asthmatic Kitty Records. A Beginners Mind began when the two musicians and Asthmatic Kitty labelmates decamped to a friends cabin in upstate New York for a monthlong songwriting sabbatical. Watching a movie to unwind after each days work, they soon found their songs reflecting the films and began investigating this connection in earnest. The resulting album