Pitchfork: Sufjan Stevens Tours Australia, Japan in January

Sufjan Stevens Tours Australia, Japan in January

Photo by Kathryn Yu

The U.S.: Fifty states, one Puerto Rico, and roughly 300 million stories to tell. Australia: Six states, a coupla territories, 20 million people, and enough koalas and kangaroos to inspire several string-and-horn arrangements. Time for another Sufjan Stevens concept project, eh?

While the thought of an orchestral ode to the homeland of Yahoo Serious and Kylie Minogue is enticing, no such thing is planned at the moment (at least that we know of). Sufjan is, however, headed to Australia for his first-ever Down Under tour, which includes a pair of shows surrounding a three-peat at the recently reported Sydney Festival.

Sufjan will follow his Aussie dates with a quick stopover in Japan. Whoa, nearly two dozen wards in Tokyo alone? Too much!

In other Sufjan news, well, with the BQE thing done, he's got relatively little on the horizon between now and Australia: Just a little chat in Brooklyn, maybe a screening of that film he helped soundtrack, and a few well-earned yuletide zzz's. Plenty of time to get cracking on another LP... right?

Sufjan:

01-10 Brisbane, Australia - The Tivoli
01-12 Sydney, Australia - State Theatre (Sydney Festival) *
01-13 Sydney, Australia - State Theatre (Sydney Festival) *
01-14 Sydney, Australia - State Theatre (Sydney Festival) *
01-16 Melbourne, Australia - Forum Theatre
01-21 Osaka, Japan – Club Quattro *
01-22 Tokyo, Japan – Club Quattro *

* with My Brightest Diamond