On the last night of Bryce Dessner’s annual MusicNOW Festival in Cincinnati, Dessner, Sufjan Stevens, and composer Nico Muhly collaborated on a new song entitled Venus.  Check it out below with trombone choir, string quartet, and drums/percussion/drum machine backing.  Everything sounds sweet until 4:14 when Stevens inexplicably switches his vocals to the vocoded mic, and we are left to pound our head against the wall in dismay.  Stevens has recently become enamored with the vocoder, which in our humble opinion has no earthly value.  Less than none.  Dear Sufjan:  Lose the vocoder NOW!