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On Songs & Albums

Erlewine asks: Is Sufjan Stevens Vastly Overrated?

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Jeffrey Overstreet

10 Jul 2006
Filed under: On Songs & Albums • Sufjan Stevens • Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Even as one AMG reviewer praises Sufjan Stevens' The Avalanche, another -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, one of AMG's most prolific reviewers -- has posted a strikingly different assessment of Stevens' work.

I know there are several Stevens listeners reading here. What do you think?

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