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this is f***ing incredible good god

gonna be perfect fall music
hope there is a tour

Damb

This cover is amazing omg

Oh f***kkkk im so in

oh boy this is coming at quite the time in my life

No tour planned, confirmed by the label.

never thought i'd see the day sufjan put a cover on a canon album (hotline bling doesnt count)

his version of there's a world is beautiful tho and deserves it

beginners mind is so good, need more unique concept albums like that

@Aruji whos hating on the ascension? i used to love it but honestly can't listen to it now. takes me back to the worst parts of 2020

dude is v much done touring

What’s the vibe? Carrie & Lowell?

love the album title, the single is gorgeous, don't like the artwork. but a 10 track singer-songwriter Sufjan album for the fall is about to destroy.

i think he just spilled pink paint on all delighted people cover and thought it looked cool or someth

The single is stunning wow

Maybe some day.. one last tour.. Was not expecting it for this one though, given the recent turmoil in his life

Bandcamp description:

Over the course of his career, Sufjan Stevens has blurred distinctions between the major and the minor, between the details that color our existence and the big events that frame our lives. He has turned historical footnotes of States into kaleidoscopic pop, and rendered the immeasurable grief of loss with intimacy and grace.

His new album 'Javelin'—Sufjan’s first solo album of songs since 2020’s The Ascension and his first in full solo singer-songwriter mode since 2015’s Carrie & Lowell—bridges all these approaches. Sufjan uses the quietness of a solitary confession to ask universal questions in songs we can share communally.

Where The Ascension, lauded by The New York Times as “a cry of despair and prayer for redemption,” used ornate but urgent electronics to square up to its moment, 'Javelin' begins more like a self-portrait, detailed yet plain. Yet whether listened to individually or as an album, these 10 songs become something much bigger, the entire experience of Sufjan’s 25-year career expressed in four-minute bursts. Choral, orchestral, and electric wonder: it all shows in 'Javelin', all of it animating these songs as full spectacles. In each song we hear the vulnerability and candor of quiet starts, then Sufjan raising the stakes.

At times, 'Javelin' has the feel of a big team album production—but it is decidedly not: almost every sound here is the result of Sufjan at home, building by himself what sometimes feels like a testament to classic ’70s Los Angeles studio recording sessions. There are indispensable contributions from a close circle of friends; the harmonies of five singers who afford 'Javelin' so much frisson: adrienne maree brown, Hannah Cohen, Pauline Delassus, Megan Lui, and Nedelle Torrisi. Bryce Dessner plays acoustic and electric guitar on “Shit Talk.” And, of course, Neil Young wrote the tender and mystic closer, “There’s a World.”

On 'Javelin', Sufjan returns as we may know him best, offering vulnerable reflections on love and relationships, so that in listening we may see ourselves more fully.

Sounds like it’s gonna be Carrie & Lowell vibes but with a more grandiose production palette that’s more reminiscent of Age of Adz/Illinois

wow this new sufjan sounds so amazing. literally gave me chills near the end

Everything about this description makes me think it has potential to be his best

We just need some ambitious 7-8 min tracks on this

Tracklist, with times, is already out if you did wanna look.

Ah man, this track is really breaking me. Just gorgeously somber. Can't stop listening.