The Age of Adz (/ɑːdz/ AHDZ)[1] is the sixth studio album by American singer/songwriter Sufjan Stevens, released on October 12, 2010, by Asthmatic Kitty.

The album features heavy use of electronics augmented by orchestration and takes inspiration from the apocalyptic artwork of schizophrenic artist Royal Robertson.

[6] In an interview with BeatRoute magazine in 2010, Stevens stated "[The BQE] kinda sabotaged the mechanical way of approaching my music, which was basically narrative long-form.

"[16] He began to transcribe some of the text that appears in Robertson's artwork, and says this process stayed with him a "long time" and "that some of it started to come up in the lyrics, in the songs I was writing.

[28] He contrasted the way in which the album was made for listeners who understood his interest in "electronic music and noise and in sound sculpting and minimalism", and with Illinois which he described as a "populist record".

[14] A recurrent focus of the album is love,[30] a theme that sometimes overlaps with spirituality as Stevens seems to address both a lover and a divine power.

"[31] Acknowledging the interplay of these two themes, the album has been described as having songs "in which love and death reign darkly over an imaginative landscape peopled with apparitions, ghosts, orators and space travellers".

[34] Keith Meatto of the Frontier Psychiatrist described the album as "a musical masterpiece that blends analog and digital sounds as it reflects on love and loss, life and death, humanity and divinity".

[38] Alex Denney of NME similarly commented that the album "conjures just enough moments of heart-stopping gorgeousness to foot the bill for its dizzying excesses".

[46] One Thirty BPM reviewer Rob Hakimian was mixed in his reception of the track, and commented that it would "make or break" the album for listeners, describing it as a successful "proclamation of love", but also "bloated" and "way over the top".

[56] The song "Vesuvius" was sampled in "Fade Away" by Social Club and Khleo Thomas, as well as in "Donald Trump" by Mac Miller.

"All for Myself" was sampled in Asaiah Ziv and Kiya Lacey's "Babylon[ER]"[citation needed] and Kendrick Lamar's "Hood Politics".

[57] The song "Futile Devices" was remixed by Doveman – who produced Carrie & Lowell, Sufjan's seventh studio album – for the 2017 film Call Me by Your Name.