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- Artist: Sufjan Stevens
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- Release Date: September 17, 2001
- Genre: Rock
Review
Sufjan Stevens' second release, Enjoy Your Rabbit, is a vast departure from the pan-ethnic folk of his debut. Using almost no exterior samples, Stevens crafts an electronic, all-"instrumental" song cycle based on the symbols of the Chinese zodiac. While working within these considerably narrower confines, he still maps out a wide musical territory by using each symbol as a mode, each one exploring different textures and tempos and, in the process, evoking a surprising array of moods. At times eerie and ominous like a backwoods Autechre, other times sounding like more club-oriented fare, Stevens sometimes trades in bloops and bleeps for oblique glitches and crackles, but the underlying guiding principle is wide-eyed exploration that fills nearly every track with a sense of playfulness. Enjoy Your Rabbit never gets too serious, although at times it's very intense. Many tracks even have some sort of musical pun working just under the surface; for instance, "Year of the Horse" is by far the longest, clocking in at over 13 minutes, and "Year of the Ox" has a regular, heavy thudding beat. ~ Jason Nickey, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Year of the Asthmatic Cat | Sufjan Stevens | Sufjan Stevens | (0:24) |
| Year of the Monkey | Sufjan Stevens | Sufjan Stevens | (4:20) |
| Year of the Rat | Sufjan Stevens | Sufjan Stevens | (8:22) |
| Year of the Ox | Sufjan Stevens | Sufjan Stevens | (4:01) |
| Year of the Boar | Sufjan Stevens | Sufjan Stevens | (3:55) |
| Year of the Tiger | Sufjan Stevens | Sufjan Stevens | (4:24) |
| Year of the Snake | Sufjan Stevens | Sufjan Stevens | (6:47) |
| Year of the Sheep | Sufjan Stevens | Sufjan Stevens | (3:34) |
| Year of the Rooster | Sufjan Stevens | Sufjan Stevens | (6:24) |
| Year of the Dragon | Sufjan Stevens | Sufjan Stevens | (9:26) |
| Enjoy Your Rabbit | Sufjan Stevens | Sufjan Stevens | (4:47) |
| Year of the Dog | Sufjan Stevens | Sufjan Stevens | (4:52) |
| Year of the Horse | Sufjan Stevens | Sufjan Stevens | (13:18) |
| Year of Our Lord | Sufjan Stevens | Sufjan Stevens | (4:30) |
