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Watch Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly And Bryce Dessner Play 'Planetarium' Track 'Mercury'

In a Manhattan studio, some of the musicians behind Planetarium play the album's beautiful closing track.
Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly and Nadia Sirota perform the closing track off 'PLANETARIUM.'

Early on a spring morning in Manhattan, Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly and Nadia Sirota gathered at Reservoir Studios in Manhattan to play a song first performed five years ago and an ocean away.

"Mercury" is the closing track off , a song cycle about the planets by Stevens, will arrive in recorded form on June 9 via 4AD.

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