Tell me you love me 😔

Im 10 songs in but this sounds like sad James Blake era mixed with molly, and it’s perfect

Could you uhh list those? 👉 👈

I wanna go back to Ursa Major but I wanna finish the album first

Always liked it but Video Game sounds even better in this electronic world Sufjan has built 3 tracks in

The smooth transition from Death Star to Goodbye...

It still sounds a little too whiny for me but I can live with it now

this, idles, elzhi, action bronson, fleet floxes(only listened once), wayne, dom k, tim heidecker/weyes blood, spillage village and ferg

probably gonna listen throughout the next few days

I love how every track has a proper and an awesome outro.
Literally in love with every track except the 3 singles: video game, sugar (although I love the 2+ minutes intro of this song), and America. But they arent bad songs, just not to the level of the rest
My favorites right now are: Make Me An Offer I Cannot Refuse, Tell Me You Love Me, Ursa Major, Landslide, Ativan.
This is a solid 9/10 after my first listen

7/10
pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sufjan-stevens-the-ascension

I like this album on first go, it's very nice, but nothing has blown me away like his classics. Lyrics aren't at C&L level. Chill record for sure, some great production and textures. 7.0 is pretty low but 7.8 or so feels right.

Finishing Ativa right now and I'm fairly whelmed. Die Happy and Make Me An Offer are the standouts so far

I wanna love you (I wanna love you)
And Im definitely gonna do it

The electronic production was a big risk and nothing prepared us for it. A lot of people aren’t into it, which is fair. So I understand how the album is divisive.
Electronic is my favorite genre and he killed it. Everything was sharp and beautifully layered.

Death Star is very good

not sure if i can get into this.. maybe a bit too electronic

age of adz prepared us tho

Goodbye To All That is even better holy f*** this is the one

True. But I really meant with the singles he picked. Planetarium also had a lot of electronic and ambient elements.

yea i didn't listen to any of the singles beforehand was pleasantly surprised with video games tbh love that song lots of ppl don't like it tho

So this a classic or what?

Super dense album.. need to spend time with this one. But upon the first couple of listens I really dig it.

Current fav: Ativan
Least fav: Die Happy

I love how he switches it up album to album. 20+ years career and still managing to keep things fresh. That's worthy of praise!

82 on Metacritic based on 14 reviews indicating Universal Acclaim