Don’t drink the poison or they’ll defeat us

Bleach? 🤔

Fantano hates on TMYLM?

Also he completely misses that the almost the entire record is about what “America” is about

First half is pretty great, then it just sounds like the same song over with the exception of America

uo: second half > first half

title track and Death Star + Goodbye bundle are the highlights

Tell me you love me has an awful climax. Song is as predictable as possible.

I swear Gilgamesh is my favourite song in the album. I don't know why its so hated.

lamentations is insane

The title track just gets more and more beautiful with each listen

This album is still on heavy rotation. Just played it last night

Is it too much to ask for an Ascension-type christmas album?

We already have silver and gold there are a ton of electronic cuts on that

This s*** right here

Facts but I’m just being greedy rn

Classic Christmas song

quarantine christmas song

I still need to give this more spins but the album has some of my favourite music this year. That guitar solo on "Landslide", the intro to "Sugar" and "Videogames" .

Great to see Sufjan return to that electronic sound with a fresh twist. I did think the album was about 15-20 minutes too long. I admired how he tried to really flesh each track out but I would've prefered he roll with 10 tracks rather than 15 if he wanted to go that route.

A 1h20m album for 15 tracks is incredibly long. That's my only drawback for the project but it's definitely one of the best this year.

Haven’t heard of CARM before tbh, but Sufjan’s on this track of his new album.

Justin Vernon also got a ft

Directed by Luca Guadagnino

Many of my initially negative opinions have shifted. However, I'd also add that I think that America is a much better song than My Rajneesh which is something I would have disagreed with months ago.

sufjan.com

new music this week

Lets gooooo

its gonna be a sufjan summer

wake up guys

Convocations, the new instrumental album from Sufjan Stevens, moves like a two-and-a-half-hour electronic/ambient mass for our present age of anxiety and dread; its 49 tracks work through the stages of grief and gladness with emotional mood music that is dreamy, dissonant, vertiginous, rhythmic, repetitive, urgent, and calm—that is, all the things we undergo when we inevitably live through isolation, uncertainty, and loss. Its five sonic cycles (Meditations, Lamentations, Revelations, Celebrations, and Incantations) replicate different stages of mourning, healing and catharsis, working both to soothe our unease while savoring a renewed sense of awe and wonder for being alive in these unprecedented times.

Stevens initiated Convocations in response to (and as an homage to) the life and death of his biological father, who died in September last year, two days following the release of The Ascension. It is, then, ultimately an album about death, and an album that reflects a year in which we have all lost so much. That said, this is not a personal record, but a universal one. Convocations is built on a shared experience that seeks to be honest about how complicated grief can be in these difficult times—the pain and separation, the anxiety, the unknown, the absolute joy of memory. This is also an album made in lockdown, when we were all cloistered in whatever space we had. Convocations arrives just as we begin to emerge from a year whose losses we will calculate for a lifetime. It is, then, right on time, as we begin to process our grief and try to carry on with it.

Schedule

Today
“Meditation V” out now.

Thursday April 8
12PM ET: Livestream of Meditations.
1PM ET: Pre-orders available for 5xLP boxset

Monday April 12
“Lamentation II”

Thursday April 15
12PM ET: Livestream of Lamentations

Monday April 19:
“Revelation II”

Thursday April 22
12PM ET: Livestream of Revelations

Monday April 26
“Celebration VIII”

Thursday April 29
12PM ET: Livestream of Celebrations

Monday May 3:
“Incantation VIII”

Thursday May 6
12PM ET: Livestream of Incantations,
1PM ET: full Convocations project available on digital platforms

August 20th
5xLP boxsets ship (first pressing).