Dear Mr. Supercomputer

Sufjan Stevens - Dear Mr. Supercomputer [mp3]

What did I say? He can do it all. "Dear Mr. Supercomputer" sees Stevens and friends, dressed as robots, showing off their light hearts and gracious touch. It's funny, it's endearing, it's unpretentious and affecting. Of course, the typical Sufjan motifs present themselves: "Oh my God I can't believe it/ What went wrong, the human race/ In its place/ Superstition." But it's not like we've heard this before, at least not this way: "One-two-three-four-five-six-seven/ All-com-pu-ters-go-to-heaven," they jingle, goofy as the thought of the word supercomputer.

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