John Legend Declares Sufjan Stevens–Produced Kids’s Album, Shares Tune: Pay attention

Sufjan Stevens has produced My Favourite Dream, a brand new album of youngsters’s music by John Legend, The Related Press reviews. The unlikely duo got here collectively at Legend’s behest when he conceived of the LP, which is due August 30. Stevens additionally contributes backing vocals, preparations, and instrumental components. Take heed to a track from the file, “L-O-V-E,” under. That one options Legend’s spouse, Chrissy Teigen, and their youngsters too.

Requested by interviewer Maria Sherman about Stevens’ involvement, Legend instructed The Related Press:

He’s singing a number of backup, and he’s such a genius. I’ve been a fan of his for like 20 years. Once I was writing these songs, my first considered who I wished to supply this was Sufjan, as a result of I like how dreamy he could make music, and the way whimsical, and the way a lot character he has to all the pieces that he makes. And I simply felt like it will be the proper power for a youngsters’s album: To mix my songwriting along with his manufacturing and arranging and taking part in. You simply hear his affect all around the album and I find it irresistible.

I used to be so completely happy he stated sure since you by no means know if somebody’s gonna wish to make a youngsters’s album with you, and we had by no means labored collectively. We had by no means even met earlier than we began engaged on this.

Revisit the evaluate of Sufjan Stevens’ newest studio album, 2023’s Javelin.