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- Summary: The latest full-length solo release from singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens features contributions from Adrienne Maree Brown, Hannah Cohen, Pauline Delassus, The National's Bryce Dessner, Megan Lui, and Nedelle Torrisi.
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- Record Label: Asthmatic Kitty
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Oct 4, 2023This is a magical, magnificent album – one of the best of Sufjan Stevens’ career.
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Oct 4, 2023Despite his quiet voice and instrumentation, his music refuses to recede into the background. It commands your attention in every conceivable way.
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Oct 4, 2023Javelin is a poignant snapshot of Stevens’s journey to this point in his career and pushes the boundaries of his art to their most jaw-dropping and potent. Javelin is another technicolored and honest feather in Sufjan Stevens’s hat, a feather that feels freeing and warm as the artist gives us some of his best work in years.
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Oct 2, 2023Gracefully distilling a profusion of self-loathing, Javelin is a heartsick high. No one yearns like Sufjan Stevens.
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UncutOct 2, 2023Javelin sounds like a proper Sufjan Stevens album, picking up the lyrical and sonic threads of Carrie & Lowell and 2010's The Age Of Adz. [Nov 2023, p.22]
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Oct 4, 2023His intimate vocals are bolstered by the addition of celestial choral harmonies, and his production is immense, yet every layered instrument and rackety beat feels meticulously deliberate.
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Oct 2, 2023Still adept at spectacular, if somewhat opaque intimacy, he enchants on My Red Little Fox, with its baroque recorders. [Nov 2023, p.85]