When we last checked in with Sufjan Stevens, the BQE package was in our hands, and we were left wondering whether or not the long awaited full-length follow-up to Come On, Bring The Illinoise was going to be as long, epic, and sprawling as the commissioned orchestral pieces. And, from the sound of it, they are.

Pitchfork rolled out video of three new Sufjan cuts being road-tested in Ithaca. And yeah, they're all pretty epic, long-winded, but wonderful in the most Sufjan of ways.

"Age of Adz" flows over with emo desperation over lurking bass notes, clangy high-hats, and reverberates with a series of off-key feedback notes, rounding out with a warbling trumpet solo before kicking into a cacophonous finish. From the sound -- and the look -- of it, Sufjan's not sure exactly where he is with this song, and is still learning it as it goes along.

It looks like he spent a little more time on "Impossible Souls", which is along the same lines: a nine-minute epic, horns blazing, hums along until it picks up at the end, when it tapes off on a quiet note. The ending's a little surprising: I expected something louder, heavier, maybe something that doesn't taper off so quickly. Not nearly as good as "Age of Adz," though.

Finally, my favorite: "There's Too Much Love," which has some of the blip-funk Stevens threw out for a few minutes in the middle of "BQE." Looks like he enjoyed himself: at 7:34 seconds, if you're going to pull "singles" from Stevens' catalog, this would be his of whatever's to come from the new album. Yeah, it's the catchiest, making it an obvious pick for a favorite, but it's also the best: focused, clear in intent, and almost, strangely, danceable. Again, with the wild trumpet solo! Hopefully he'll reserve those for only a few songs, instead of every track on the album having one. That'd be overkill, don't you think? Either way, if these videos prove anything, it's that (A) if you didn't have a ticket to Sufjan's club tour, you should want one now, (B) the new album's gonna be incredible, and (C) he's going to be around (and breaking new ground) for a while. Get used to it. We take this guy for granted: