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- Enjoy Your Rabbit
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Sufjan Stevens
Released 2001

Year of the Ox
04:01
464 plays

Year of the Monkey
04:20
411 plays

Year of the Boar
03:55
398 plays

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- 1
- Year of the Asthmatic Cat
- 00:24
- 386 plays

- 2
- Year of the Monkey
- 04:20
- 411 plays

- 3
- Year of the Rat
- 08:22
- 371 plays

- 4
- Year of the Ox
- 04:01
- 464 plays

- 5
- Year of the Boar
- 03:55
- 398 plays

- 6
- Year of the Tiger
- 04:24
- 292 plays

- 7
- Year of the Snake
- 06:47
- 237 plays

- 8
- Year of the Sheep
- 03:34
- 230 plays

- 9
- Year of the Rooster
- 06:24
- 243 plays

- 10
- Year of the Dragon
- 09:26
- 270 plays

- 11
- Enjoy Your Rabbit
- 04:47
- 338 plays

- 12
- Year of the Dog
- 04:52
- 315 plays

- 13
- Year of the Horse
- 13:18
- 254 plays

- 14
- Year of Our Lord
- 04:30
- 280 plays

album review

Sufjan Stevens' second release, Enjoy Your Rabbit, is a vast departure from the pan-ethnic folk of his debut. Using almost no exterior samples, Stevens crafts an electronic, all-"instrumental" song cycle based on the symbols of the Chinese zodiac. While working within these considerably narrower confines, he still maps out a wide musical territory by using each symbol as a mode, each one exploring different textures and tempos and, in the process, evoking a surprising array of moods. At times eerie and ominous like a backwoods Autechre, other times sounding like more club-oriented fare, Stevens sometimes trades in bloops and bleeps for oblique glitches and crackles, but the underlying guiding principle is wide-eyed exploration that fills nearly every track with a sense of playfulness. Enjoy Your Rabbit never gets too serious, although at times it's very intense. Many tracks even have some sort of musical pun working just under the surface; for instance, "Year of the Horse" is by far the longest, clocking in at over 13 minutes, and "Year of the Ox" has a regular, heavy thudding beat. ~ Jason Nickey, All Music Guide