Sufjan Stevens: Javelin - COMPACT DISCS

Title: Javelin
Artist: Sufjan Stevens
Label: Asthmatic Kitty
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 729920165896
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2023-10-06
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: Explicit Lyrics

2023 release. 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. 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. Accompanying the CD and LP formats of the album is a 48-page book of art and essays. With a series of meticulous collages, cut-up catalog fantasies, puff-paint word clouds, and iterative color fields, Sufjan builds order from seeming chaos and vice versa. And toward the middle of it all are 10 short essays by Sufjan, another window into the process that informed Javelin.

Tracks:
1.1 Goodbye Evergreen
1.2 A Running Start
1.3 Will Anybody Ever Love Me?
1.4 Everything That Rises
1.5 Genuflecting Ghost
1.6 My Red Little Fox
1.7 So You Are Tired
1.8 Javelin (To Have and to Hold)
1.9 Shit Talk
1.10 There's a World