Claude says:When Sufjan Stevens grew tired of his own banjo and announced that the Fifty States Project had been a gimmick all along, he pivoted hard into electronics—The Age of Adz landed in October 2010 as a maximalist break from the folk-baroque of Illinois, layering orchestration over synths and drum machines, inspired by the apocalyptic drawings of schizophrenic artist Royal Robertson. You grabbed it right away and lived in it that fall, returning to "Too Much" and "Vesuvius" most often, then circled back for a brief April 2013 reunion before letting it go.