All Delighted People received mostly positive reviews from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 63, based on 12 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".[14]
Ian Cohen of Pitchfork Media gave the EP a positive review stating, "It isn't the mere existence of Age of Adz that puts this EP in perspective, though-- the electronic sonics of first taste "I Walked" are a blatant sign that we may ultimately have to retire the idea of Sufjan Stevens as a banjo-toting cartographer of the heart and the continental United States going forward. The scrapbook-like cover of All Delighted People makes sense then, as its contents serve as a humble and friendly keepsake, songs that deserve to be heard, but belonging to a chapter in Stevens' artistic livelihood that he needed to close to maintain his vitality."[10]
Track listing
No.
Title
Length
1.
"All Delighted People" (original version)
11:38
2.
"Enchanting Ghost"
3:39
3.
"Heirloom"
2:55
4.
"From the Mouth of Gabriel"
4:03
5.
"The Owl and the Tanager"
6:38
6.
"All Delighted People" (classic rock version)
8:07
7.
"Arnika"
5:13
8.
"Djohariah"
17:02
Vinyl edition
Side A
No.
Title
Length
1.
"All Delighted People" (original version)
11:38
2.
"Enchanting Ghost"
3:39
3.
"From the Mouth of Gabriel"
4:03
Side B
No.
Title
Length
1.
"The Owl and the Tanager"
6:38
2.
"All Delighted People" (classic rock version)
8:07
3.
"Arnika"
5:13
Side C
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Heirloom"
2:55
2.
"Djohariah"
17:02
Side D
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Untitled"
2:47
2.
"Untitled"
1:57
3.
"Untitled"
0:46
4.
"Untitled"
2:25
5.
"Untitled"
1:00
6.
"Untitled"
1:06
7.
"Untitled"
1:01
8.
"Untitled"
0:35
9.
"Untitled"
2:52
10.
"Untitled"
1:00
11.
"Untitled"
3:10
Notes:
Side D contains piano solos originally recorded as a soundtrack to the 2008 short film Eve, directed by Natalie Portman. No information is contained about these in the vinyl release.
