Sufjan Stevens – “Javelin” (Released 6th October 2023)

Description

//Asthematic Kitty Records//

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On ‘Javelin’, Sufjan, as you may know him best, returns: offering gorgeous if pained glimpses of himself, so that we may see ourselves more fully.

Each track on ‘Javelin’ starts intimately: the trickle of an acoustic guitar, the patter of a lidded piano, and the cascade of a coruscant arpeggio. and then, of course, there is that disarming voice, the throughline in one of the most eclectic catalogues of any songwriter this century – soft but strong, as if the very scenes of hurt and hope it is about to share have only galvanized it through the decades. ‘javelin’ pairs musical sweep with emotional breadth, an entire lifetime of feeling woven into 42-minutes.

Tracklisting:

Goodnight evergreen
A running start
Will anybody ever love me?
Everything that rises
Genuflecting ghost
My red little fox
So you are tired
Javelin (to have and to hold)
Shit talk
There’s a world