Sufjan Stevens - Javelin

 

Sufjan Stevens' tenth solo studio album

Includes 48-page book of aart and essays by Sufjan Stevens

On Sufjan Stevens' 2023 album Javelin, each track 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. This album is classic Sufjan. A must own.

Side A

Goodbye Evergreen

A Running Start

Will Anybody Ever Love Me?

Everything That Rises

Genuflecting Ghost

Side B

My Red Little Fox

So You Are Tired

Javelin (To Have and to Hold)

Shit Talk

There's a World

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