Run Rabbit Run
Sufjan Stevens' experimental electronic LP Enjoy Your Rabbit is recast as a modern classic work by Osso and many of NYC's hippest young composers.
“Illinois marks a highly developed highpoint for an artist whose maturation from here on out should be a wonder to hear.” So ends The A.V. Club’s 2005 review of Sufjan Stevens’ classic Illinois, that perfectly precious (and occasionally painfully twee) album that so nicely solidified Stevens’ place in the modern canon…
Sufjan Stevens: The BQE – 92/100 The BQE – 92/100 Osso: Run Rabbit Run – 76/100 Run Rabbit Run – 76/100
Somewhere in the eye of that musical tornado they found themselves in the capable hands of indie pop spokesman Sufjan Stevens, providing strings for both studio and stage, so it comes as no surprise that the quartet's first "official" release is a chamber music rendering of Enjoy Your Rabbit, Stevens' 2001 electronic, all-"instrumental" collection of songs based on the symbols of the Chinese zodiac.
Run Rabbit Run illustrates Osso’s mastery of their string instruments but emphasize Stevens’s incredible talent as a songwriter and arranger.