The title track continues Ascension Sufjan is one of the best songs written by Stevens. Combining himself with a sad, pulsing melody on the keyboard, Stevens uses precise and sympathetic language to dispel confidence and despair, regret and revelation. He screams out a character King Lear. It rhymes with “confession” …
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Sufjan Stevens has shared the latest single from his new album The Ascension. This is called ‘Video Game’. It comes with the following Nicole Ginelli-directed video starring and choreographed by Jalaiah Harmon (creator of the viral “Renegade” dance). Stevens said of the song and the video in a statement: It …
Read More »Photo: Mat Hayward (fake pictures) Sufjan Stevens spread his angel wings and reentered our atmosphere earlier this year with Aporia, a mostly instrumental New Age album he recorded with his stepfather, Lowell Brams. Now the shape-shifting artist has returned to Earth to announce a new solo LP, Ascension, which will …
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