Sufjan Stevens’ ‘The Ascension’ review: A sprawling epic of an album

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Related: Yusuf Islam AKA Cat Stevens to lead BBC Ramadan series The 72-year-old British musician, still internationally famous for songs such as Father and Son, The First Cut is the Deepest, Moonshadow and Wild World, said he had hoped fans would understand that he felt he had found something more important than music, but he was wrong.“I thought, ‘Everybody should get this’, but it didn’t work out quite like that.

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Sufjan Stevens, 45, received an Academy Award nomination for his song “Mystery of Love”, from the soundtrack for “Call Me By Your Name”.

Sufjan Stevens, “The Ascension” (Asthmatic Kitty)Synthesized drums and dissected, distorted vocals open the upbeat electronic track “Lamentations” as Sufjan Stevens sings out: “I was only thinking of human kindness/I am the future, define the future.”It is this tenet that carries through “The Ascension” as Stevens acknowledges the turmoil around him but resolves to rise above. It is both a cautionary tale and a call to action.