While Sufjan Stevens is busy trying to figure out what the hell to do with all those incredible, awesome, too-long-for-some-people-but-really-well-worth-the-wait few pieces of new material, we're stuck with nothing! BQE's orchestrations are nice twee background music if you're on a particularly light trip of mushrooms, but other than that, we need our fix, Soof. Well, we got it -- the Sufjan finally got mixed up with some hip hop. How is it?

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.

Sufjan Stevens performed his concert/commission BQE (based on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, Robert Moses' controversial architectural swan song) at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in October 2007, along with a concert of his songs to go with it. The piece -- Sufjan, hula-hoopers, a 35-piece band and orchestra, and live film projections -- was considered a huge success by all who saw it, or as the New York Times' Jon Pareles wrote: "Mr. Stevens has emerged from indie rock as a mastermind of extravaganzas ... the commission ... allowed Mr. Stevens to think bigger, and he exploited it superbly." If you couldn't be there for that time Sufjan drew another fine fabric from "indie rock" and pulled it through "fine arts," you can now relive the magic at home. Opening shots, and hidden track dish after the jump.