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SOOF-yawn — announced the news in a Tumblr post. The 48-year-old musician explained why he was unable to promote his newest album “Javelin,” which is set to be released Oct.

Sufjan Stevens musical Illinoise is set to open on Broadway next month.The 90-minute show, directed, choreographed and co-written by Justin Peck, is based on Stevens’ 2005 concept album ‘Illinois’. Previous runs were staged at Bard College’s Fisher Center in New York and the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.Now, it has been confirmed that Illinoise is heading to the St.

Elton John has unveiled his favourite festive songs of 2023.The legendary singer-songwriter shared his selection as part of a Christmas edition of his Rocket Hour show on Apple Music.The list included his own 1973 festive hit ‘Step Into Christmas’ along with seasonal songs and covers by Elvis, RAYE and Phoebe Bridgers.Taking to his official Instagram account, ahead of the show he wrote: “It’s the Rocket Hour Christmas Special! This year I have selected an eclectic mix of old and new, ranging festive classics from The Ronettes, Elvis Presley and Greg Lake, to some of my favourite new Christmas songs and covers from contemporary artists including RAYE, Phoebe Bridgers and Sufjan Stevens, as well as some lesser-known deep cuts.

The Age of Adz, when he sings, “I would say I love you/but saying it out loud is hard,” and after a pause, concludes, “So I won’t say it at all.”Echoes of that brief and arresting expression of yearning can be found throughout his body of work over the last decade, whether he is grieving an intense personal loss or marveling at the cosmos itself.Although that finely tuned evasiveness around his own desire has long characterized his music, on his latest release Javelin (★★★★☆) he seems ready to say the quiet parts out loud.Stevens’ songwriting has always been lyrical, evocative, and rich in metaphor, so it should be no surprise that he has again delivered a collection of beautifully written songs.What is notable about his writing in Javelin is how intense and personal it is, containing none of the artful detachment of A Beginner’s Mind nor the grandiosity of its predecessor, The Ascension. Instead, he bares his soul with the same open-hearted frankness he brought to 2015’s Carrie and Lowell, his meditation on his complicated grief for his mother.Unlike Carrie and Lowell, it would be difficult to make the case that Javelin is really “about” anything more than Stevens’ need to be seen and understood.

Javelin, his tenth as a soloist. His NameSufjan may be an uncommon name for a musician, but for Stevens, it’s a moniker rooted in history and culture. In an interview with Junk Media, the singer-songwriter humorously described it as “one of those charming militaristic Muslim names,” playfully musing that his purpose in life might be to “kill and avenge.”Working With His StepfatherStevens embarked on his musical journey with the release of his debut album, A Sun Came. He released the set in 2000 while still in college.

Sufjan Stevens has shared that his new album ‘Javelin‘ is dedicated to his late partner who died earlier this year.The Detroit singer-songwriter’s 10th album came out today (October 6), which NME praised in a four-star review as a record of “lush and intimate indie-folk” that remains “compelling and fresh”.The artist has now opened up on social media about dedicating the record to his late “beloved” partner Evans Richardson, who died in April.“Thank you for listening. I love you,” Stevens began in an Instagram post, alongside a picture of his late partner smiling in bed.“This album is dedicated to the light of my life, my beloved partner and best friend Evans Richardson, who passed away in April.

Sufjan Stevens has opened up about being hospitalised with Guillian-Barre Syndrome after the illness left him unable to walk.In a lengthy instagram post, the indie-folk musician said his symptoms of the illness first began to show last month. “My hands, arms and legs were numb and tingling and I had no strength, no feeling, no mobility.”The rare disorder causes the body to attack its own nerves, which initially results in weakness and tingling in the hands and feet before spreading across the body and causing paralysis.The musician says he was diagnosed with the condition in hospital, after which he spent two weeks bed bound “while my doctors did all the things to keep me alive and stabilise my condition.

Sufjan Stevens has shared a new single called ‘Will Anybody Ever Love Me?’ – listen to it below.The song will appear on the Detroit singer-songwriter’s 10th studio album ‘Javelin’, which is due for release on October 6 via Asthmatic Kitty Records (pre-order/pre-save here).“Will anybody ever love me?/ For good reasons/ Without grievance, not for sport/ Will anybody ever love me?/ In every season/ Pledge allegiance to my heart/ Pledge allegiance to my burning heart,” Stevens ponders in the chorus.After additional instrumentation is brought in, the musician pleads for forgiveness and gently sings of the “heartache and misery” he’s caused in the past. “Take my suffering as I take my vow/ Wash me now, anoint me/ With that golden blade,” he adds.Stevens – who self-produced ‘Will Anybody Ever Love Me?’, and played every instrument on the single – is accompanied by guest backing vocalists Adrienne Maree Brown, Hannah Cohen and Megan Lui.“The first time I sang the song I started crying, I was so moved by the honesty of the questions,” Brown said in a statement.Cohen added: “Sufjan is an impossibly brave and gifted writer.

Sufjan Stevens has announced his new album ‘Javelin’ and shared lead single ‘So You Are Tired’ – listen to it below.‘Javelin’ is due out on October 6 via Asthmatic Kitty Records, and is available to pre-save/ pre-order here. The LP marks the artist’s first solo album since 2020’s ‘The Ascension‘, and his first back in “full singer-songwriter mode” since ‘Carrie & Lowell‘, according to a press release.It also follows his April release ‘Reflections’, a studio recording of his score for the ballet by choreographer Justin Peck.Lead single ‘So You Are Tired’ is a gentle piano number that gradually swells to introduce guitars, percussion and a choir of powerful vocals. “So you are tired of us / So rest your head,” Stevens sings.Listen to it below.The forthcoming 10-track album sees “the entire experience of Stevens’ 25-year career brought to bear in four-minute bursts of choral, orchestral, and electric wonder”, as per the release.The musician worked with a close circle of collaborators on the new LP, including adrienne maree brown, Hannah Cohen, Pauline Delassus, Megan Lui, Nedelle Torrisi and Bryce Dessner.

Sufjan Stevens has announced Javelin, the Detroit-born musician's 10th studio album. Out on October 6 via Asthmatic Kitty, Javelin promises Stevens's return to his singer-songwriter origins following 2020's Convocations, a 49-track instrumental project split into five LPs, and Reflections, a score for a ballet choreographed by Justin Peck.

Sufjan Stevens is set to share new music as part of a 20th anniversary reissue of his beloved LP ‘Michigan’.The singer-songwriter’s third studio album came out in 2003, and is being repressed in association with Third Man Pressings.It comes in three shades – the ‘Great Lakes Blue’ edition, a ‘University of Michigan/Michigan State AKR’ edition, and a ‘1921 Centenary’ edition.Included in the reissue will be alternate versions of the tracks ‘Romulus’ and ‘Vito’s Ordination Song’ as well as unreleased tracks from the era titled ‘Wolverine’ and ‘Marching Band’.The ‘Great Lakes’ edition will be available via Third Man from June 14, with the ‘Michigan State’ edition available the next day.On June 17, the ‘1921 Centenary’ will be released, honouring the 100th anniversary of HMV.See all the editions below.

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Sufjan Stevens has announced his new album ‘Reflections’ along with new single ‘Ekstasis’.The album is a studio recording of his score for the ballet by choreographer Justin Peck, and was performed by pianists Timo Andres and Conor Hanick. The record is set for release on May 19 via Asthmatic Kitty Records.Speaking about how ‘Ekstasis’ captures the mood of ‘Reflections’, Stevens said: “It is about energy, light and duality.

Sufjan Stevens‘ 2005 concept album ‘Illinois’ is being turned into a musical, with its first run confirmed for this year.The new show will premiere this summer as part of the 20th anniversary celebrations of Bard College’s Fisher Center in New York.A synopsis of the production, which features music and lyrics penned by Stevens and script written by Justin Peck and Jackie Sibblies Drury, reads: “Featuring new arrangements of the entire album for a live band and three voices — ranging in style from DIY folk and indie rock to marching band and ambient electronics — Illinois will lead us on a mighty journey through the American heartland, from campfire storytelling to the edges of the cosmos.“Tony Award-winner Justin Peck transforms the album into a full-length theatrical performance with a cast of virtuosic dancers, singers, and musicians in a narrative crafted with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury.”The show will come to Bard from June 23 to July 2 and you can buy tickets here.A few years back, Sufjan Stevens called for every band to break up after ten years together in his end-of-year roundup for 2021.Writing on Tumblr, Stevens listed his favourite and least favourite albums of 2021 – even though most of the entries aren’t actual albums, and a majority of those that are, weren’t released this year.Topping Stevens’ list of the worst albums of 2021 was Netflix’s hit show Squid Game. “I didn’t actually see it but it looks really stupid,” he wrote before giving it a score of F-.Also on Steven’s list of his least favourite albums was The Matrix 4 (“Ugh.

Sufjan Stevens. No cause of death was provided.“It is with great sorrow that the family of Raymond Raposa announce his passing today,” reads the statement, which was provided to the label by Raposa’s family. “Raymond was a wonderful son, brother, uncle, friend, and musician.

Sufjan Stevens has said he thinks it’s about time he took a break and stepped back from music.The prolific singer-songwriter who has released four different projects over the last two years – including this year’s ‘Convocations’ and ‘A Beginner’s Mind’, his joint album with Angelo De Augustine – has recognised that he might need some time to himself.Asked by WNYC if he had anymore music on the way, Stevens replied: “I mean, yeah, I’m always working on something and always have three albums on

Japanese Breakfast has delivered a cover of Sufjan Stevens’ track ‘Romulus’, taken from his 2003 album ‘Michigan’.Recorded for SiriusXMU, the acoustic cover stays loyal to Stevens’ folksy original, with Michelle Zauner’s vocals equally as floaty above the light guitar and piano.Listen to the cover below:Zauner’s cover of ‘Romulus’ follows on from a recent live rendition of Dolly Parton’s ‘Here You Come Again’, performed while on tour.

Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine have released two new tracks, ‘Back To Oz’ and ‘Fictional California’.The tracks will appear on the pair’s collaborative album ‘A Beginner’s Mind’, which is due to arrive on September 24 via Asthmatic Kitty Records.As previously announced, each track on the forthcoming collection was inspired by a separate film that the labelmates watched together: ‘The results are less a ‘cinematic exegesis’ and more a ‘rambling philosophical inquiry’ that allows the songs

Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine have announced their new collaborative album ‘A Beginner’s Mind’ – you can hear two songs from the project below.The 14-track LP is set for release on September 24 via Asthmatic Kitty Records, and was written when the two labelmates decamped to a friend’s house in upstate New York for a month-long songwriting session.“Watching a movie to unwind after each day’s work, they soon found their songs reflecting the films and began investigating this connection in

Sufjan Stevens has shared the latest preview of his upcoming new album ‘Convocations’ with the ambient piece ‘Celebration VIII’ – you can hear the track below.‘Convocations’, a five-volume instrumental tribute to Stevens’ late father, will be released digitally on May 6 via Asthmatic Kitty.

Sufjan Stevens has shared the second part of his upcoming five-part album – listen to ‘Lamentations’ below.The track is included on the second part of Stevens’ new 49-track album ‘Convocations’, which is due out next month.Each of the five parts of the album are being released one-by-one in the run-up to the album’s full release.

Sufjan Stevens has shared a new song – listen to ‘Lamentation II’ below.The track is included on the second part of Stevens’ upcoming five-part, 49-track album ‘Convocations’, which is due out next month.Last week (April 6), Stevens shared the album’s first preview, ‘Meditations V’, and the rest of the tracks from the ‘Meditations’ part of the album premiered two days later.After today’s release of ‘Lamentation II’, the rest of the ‘Lamentation’ series of tracks will debut later this week (April

After sharing the single "Meditation V" last week, Sufjan Stevens has shared his latest release “Lamentation II,” on Monday. Set to appear on his upcoming, five-volume album Convocations, last week also saw the release of the first volume Meditations, while a second volume, Lamentations, is set to drop on Friday.

Sufjan Stevens is set to release a new five-volume project, Convocations, the official follow-up to his 2020 album The Ascension, according to Rolling Stone. With its first volume Meditations out tomrrow, the full project is set to drop on May 6.

Sufjan Stevens has announced a new five-part album called ‘Convocations’ – you can listen to the track ‘Meditation V’ below now.The US singer-songwriter, whose eighth album ‘The Ascension’ arrived last September, promised yesterday (April 5) that “new holistic music” would be arriving this week while sharing a new piece of artwork.It has now been confirmed that an instrumental record from Stevens will be released digitally on May 6 via Asthmatic Kitty.

Sufjan Stevens has said that he will be releasing new “holistic” music this week.The artist’s last solo release came in September with his eighth studio album ‘The Ascension’.

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Sufjan Stevens has spoken about his experience of performing at the 2018 Oscars, calling it “traumatising”.The indie musician was invited to perform at the Hollywood awards ceremony after his song ‘Mystery Of Love’ – written for the Call Me By Your Name soundtrack – was nominated for Best Original Song.“Honestly, one of the most traumatising experiences of my entire life,” Stevens said when asked about the event in an interview with the Guardian.

The Ascension, is a sprawling, 80-minute epic of an album that puts his angst over life, death, and love on full blast and shares much in common with his 2010 electronic fever dream, The Age of Adz.

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Heading to another planet is more broadly appealing than it's been in ages, and Sufjan Stevens is delivering the soundtrack with his new sci-fi electronic album Aporia. Stitched together from jam sessions with Stevens's stepfather Lowell Brams, Aporia is available to stream on YouTube before its official release date of March 27.

Sufjan Stevens has shared a new song called “Climb That Mountain” from his forthcoming collaborative album Aporia with his father Lowell Brams. Check it out below.

Sufjan Stevens and Lowell Brams shine a spotlight on the dirt bike scene in the video for new song "The Runaround." The ABUTTA492-directed video features Bike Life bikers on the streets of Harlem and NYC, Atlanta, and Miami. Check it out above.

Sufjan Stevens and his stepfather Lowell Brams have shared another track from their forthcoming album Aporia. “Runaround” arrives with a music video shot and edited by ABUTTA492. The visual features Bike Life bikers riding ATVs and dirt bikes in New York, Atlanta, and Miami. Watch below.

Sufjan Stevens has announced a new collaborative album with his stepfather Lowell Brams (aka the Lowell of Carrie & Lowell). It’s called Aporia and it’s out March 27 on Asthmatic Kitty, the label that Stevens and Brams founded together. Below, check out the new song “The Unlimited.” Scroll down for the cover art, tracklist, and a playlist of songs that inspired the album, featuring Enya, Boards of Canada, Fennesz, and more.