Sufjan Stevens

Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension (2020)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Nov. 3, 2020
Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension (2020)

Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 01:20:04 | 475 Mb
Indie Folk, Singer-Songwriter | Label: Asthmatic Kitty Records

The Ascension is the eighth studio album from singer, songwriter and composer Sufjan Stevens and is the long awaited follow-up to Stevens' Carrie abd Lowell. In the time between Carrie and Lowell and The Ascension, Stevens also released Oscar-nominated music for the Luca Guadagnino film Call Me By Your Name; a collaborative album entitled Planetarium with Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner (The National) and James Mcalister; The Decalogue, a solo piano work performed by Timo Andres; and scored several works for ballet: Reflections (Houston Ballet) and Principia (NYCB). The Ascension is musically expansive and sweeping in thematic scope.

Timo Andres & Sufjan Stevens - The Decalogue (2019)  Music

Posted by delpotro at July 3, 2022
Timo Andres & Sufjan Stevens - The Decalogue (2019)

Timo Andres & Sufjan Stevens - The Decalogue (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 93 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 64 Mb | 00:27:23
Modern Classical | Label: Asthmatic Kitty Records

The title of “The Decalogue” has a touch of the grandiose: it means “The Ten Commandments.” Yet this score, composed by Sufjan Stevens for a dance work choreographed by Justin Peck that premiered with the New York City Ballet in May of 2017, is quiet and experimental. Stevens’s piano score, as played and recorded by Timo Andres, sounds like etudes in the Romantic-modernist tradition, as if prompted by Debussy. With “The Decalogue,” releasing digitally and on deluxe edition vinyl on October 18, 2019 and standard edition and CD on December 6, 2019, Sufjan is making—gently, without ostentation—new departures.

Sufjan Stevens & Lowell Brams - Aporia (2020)  Music

Posted by delpotro at June 23, 2020
Sufjan Stevens & Lowell Brams - Aporia (2020)

Sufjan Stevens & Lowell Brams - Aporia (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 229 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 97 Mb | 00:42:16
New Age, Ambient, Folk | Label: Asthmatic Kitty Records

Aporia is a New Age album from Sufjan Stevens and his step-father and record label co-owner, Lowell Brams. The 21 songs on Aporia are tightly crafted, resonating with a gem-like intensity, made in the spirit of the New Age composers who sanded off the edges of their synths’ sawtooth waves. Aporia approximates a rich soundtrack from an imagined sci-fi epic brimming with moody, hooky, gauzy synthesizer soundscapes, suggesting the progeny of a John Carpenter, Wendy Carlos, and Mike Oldfield marriage – but it stands apart from these touchstones and generates a meditative universe all its own.

Sufjan Stevens - Javelin (2023)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Oct. 4, 2023
Sufjan Stevens - Javelin (2023)

Sufjan Stevens - Javelin (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 246 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 97 MB
41:59 | Pop, Indie Folk, Indie Rock | Label: Asthmatic Kitty

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 catalogs 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. 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.

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - A Beginner's Mind (2021)  Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Sept. 23, 2021
Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - A Beginner's Mind (2021)

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - A Beginner's Mind (2021)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 254 MB | Cover | 45:27 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 106 MB
Alternative, Indie | Label: Asthmatic Kitty

After having the promise of post-pandemic hope seemingly pulled out from under the world like a cheap rug, most of us could do with a balm. Songwriters Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine deliver the goods in the form of a truly comforting diversion. Stevens, of course, loves a concept album: He's made them about the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, Michigan and Illinois, and his mother's tragic life and death. This time, he teams with lo-fi California singer-songwriter De Augustine, who has made two albums for Stevens' Asthmatic Kitty label. The theme is philosophical musings on movies, ranging from Old Hollywood (All About Eve) to monster flicks (The Thing), horror (Hellraiser III, Night of the Living Dead), modern classics (She's Gotta Have It, Silence of the Lambs; the album is dedicated to director Jonathan Demme who died in 2017), even action (Point Break).

Sufjan Stevens - 5 Unreleased Songs (2023)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Oct. 15, 2023
Sufjan Stevens - 5 Unreleased Songs (2023)

Sufjan Stevens - 5 Unreleased Songs (2023)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 62 MB
12:07 | Pop, Indie Folk, Indie Rock | Label: Asthmatic Kitty Records

Rough Trade Exclusive Bonus disc included with CD copies of Javelin.

Sufjan Stevens - Revelations (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]  Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at April 23, 2021
Sufjan Stevens - Revelations (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Sufjan Stevens - Revelations (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 34:44 minutes | 219 MB
Experimental Electronic, Ambient | Label: Asthmatic Kitty, Official Digital Download

Sufjan Stevens shared “Revelation II”. The track is part of the singer-songwriter’s five-volume album, Convocations, and will appear on the third volume, Revelations, due out on Thursday, April 22 via Asthmatic Kitty. Sufjan Stevens wrote and recorded Convocations in Fall 2020 as a tribute to his father who died in September just days after Stevens released his album, The Ascension. Stevens announced Convocations earlier this month and subsequently released the first and second volumes, Meditations and Lamentations.
Sufjan Stevens - Convocations (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Sufjan Stevens - Convocations (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 150:05 minutes | 885 MB
Experimental Electronic, Ambient | Label: Asthmatic Kitty, Official Digital Download

It may be tempting to reduce Convocations into a longform ambient anomaly within Sufjan Stevens’ vast catalogue. It is, however, neither an anomaly nor entirely ambient. This is not a side project. From his numerous dance scores for New York City Ballet to instrumental albums such as Enjoy Your Rabbit, Aporia, and The BQE, Stevens spends at least half his working life making largely instrumental music, as he has for decades.

Sufjan Stevens - Lamentations (2021) [Official Digital Download]  Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at April 17, 2021
Sufjan Stevens - Lamentations (2021) [Official Digital Download]

Sufjan Stevens - Lamentations (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 31:18 minutes | 284 MB
Experimental Electronic, Ambient | Label: Asthmatic Kitty, Official Digital Download

Last year, two days after Sufjan Stevens released his grandiose, depressive electro-pop opus The Ascension, his biological father died. Naturally, this set off an emotional chain reaction, and naturally, Sufjan has processed all those feelings through music — a lot of music. Last week he began releasing Convocations, a series of five instrumental albums spanning 49 tracks over two and a half hours. By the first week of May, they’ll all be released together as a five-LP set.

Sufjan Stevens - Meditations (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]  Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at April 9, 2021
Sufjan Stevens - Meditations (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Sufjan Stevens - Meditations (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 27:03 minutes | 169 MB
Electronic, Ambient | Label: Asthmatic Kitty, Official Digital Download

Sufjan Stevens has announced Convocations, a five-volume album that follows on the heels of last year’s The Ascension.