User Score
Universal acclaim- based on 75 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 65 out of 75
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Mixed: 5 out of 75
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Negative: 5 out of 75
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Sep 27, 2020It's a mess of an album. Just nothing like his other work and full of annoying sounds.
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Sep 27, 2020
Awards & Rankings
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Oct 21, 2020The Ascension ranks with Carrie & Lowell as his most personal and affecting work to date.
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Oct 6, 2020The Ascension harks back to the heavy electronics of 2010’s Age of Adz but with adroit focus on the themes of existential dread and the quest for meaning with a bounty of angry yet hopeful songs that satisfy melodically and metaphysically.
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Oct 2, 2020The Ascension, Stevens’ eighth studio album over all, and the follow-up to his highly lauded outing Carrie & Lowell, diminishes the accessibility factor in favor of a more amorphous imprint, one that finds all manner of effects and an ever-constant shift in sounds that drift through practically every selection.