For a project inspired by popular cinema, Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine show great restraint on A Beginner’s Mind, a first collaborative album for these two names of American indie pop. The songs are warmly dressed with keyboards, sometimes electric guitars and drums, but without the ostentatious violin section associated with film scores. So the pair locked themselves in a chalet, watching classics – Thesilenceofthelambs, Mad Max, The wings of desire, etc. -, composing from the images and impressions left by these works. Stevens fans will be delighted to find him in the folk context of Carrie & Lowell (2015), after two albums with more electronic orchestrations; he shares vocal responsibilities with accomplice De Augustine, not without drawing some comparisons with classic folk duets from the 1960s and 1970s in their guitar playing and vocal harmonies. An honest and inviting record in which the two musicians revisit a familiar playing field.
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