I've Got Good News and Bad News...

Space Rabbits. I never thought I'd live to see the day.

The good news is that brilliant indie singer/songwriter Sufjan Stevens is releasing an album on October 6. Yaaaaay!! It's been over four years since good ol' Suf-Jan introduced the latest installment in his mythical '50 States Project'. The plan was epic: record an album representing each of this here countries 50 states, beginning with the 2003 release Greetings From Michigan and (as it would seem) ending in 2005 with Come On Feel The Illinoise! That was pretty much the last we'd heard of The Project, though the past few years haven't been entirely devoid of new releases; both The Avalanche - Outtakes and Extras from the Illinois Album (2006) and Songs For Christmas box set had plenty of quality material. But lets be real B-Sides and Christmas albums ain't jack shit compared to a real-life-honest-to-god-new-full-length-LP.

This brings me to the bad news: the album Stevens is releasing this fall is not a real-life-honest-to-god-new-full-length-LP. It's called Run Rabbit Run and it is a string quartet retelling of Stevens' 2001 release Enjoy Your Rabbit. It ought to be interesting, if nothing else. Its interesting to note that the idea was originallly concieve by Bryce Dessner, guitarist of The National. For more info and historical context for Run Rabbit Run check this out. Hopefully, October 6 gets here fast, so that way a Sufjan can release a 'real' new album already.