Aporia
by Sufjan Stevens
Metascore
72

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
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  1. Consequence
    Mar 25, 2020
    83
    Described by Stevens and Brams as a New Age-inspired album, Aporia accomplishes exactly that, functioning as a recovered soundtrack to a long-lost, fictitious sci-fi film.
  2. Uncut
    Mar 26, 2020
    80
    21 haunting, electronic vignettes. [May 2020, p.35]
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  3. Glide Magazine
    Mar 24, 2020
    80
    Overall, it was an excellent example of electronic production by two masters at the craft. A lot of instrumentally based albums move all as one piece, but “Aporia” was a combination of tracks each made as an individual piece creating a distinct musical picture. Listen with headphones.
  5. Clash Music
    Mar 24, 2020
    80
    ‘Aporia’ certainly asks a degree of patience from its listener – the kind often reserved for previously-existing fans of Stevens – to realise its full potential, but over the last few decades the number of listeners able to give this patience has grown exponentially, just in time for Stevens to push boundaries that bit further once again.
  6. Paste Magazine
    Apr 1, 2020
    78
    Aporia, by no means, is going to be considered an essential Sufjan album. However, for electronic obsessives and longtime followers, the record will feel like absolute candy.
  7. The Line of Best Fit
    Mar 24, 2020
    75
    It’s an unexpected but fitting swansong: like Brams’ presence in Stevens’ life and work, it is a gentle guide, and an encouragement to give our thoughts space.
  8. PopMatters
    Apr 27, 2020
    70
    The album is quiet. The 21 tracks are short, slow and soothing.
  9. AllMusic
    Mar 30, 2020
    70
    This is sometimes an aural journey through a labyrinth, but it never sounds like the participants are lost.
  10. Exclaim
    Mar 24, 2020
    70
    Aporia is foremost an exercise in collaboration — a meeting between two perpetually entangled personalities, an ode to their decades-long father-son relationship and a fitting conclusion to their musically enriched partnership.
  11. Pitchfork
    Mar 30, 2020
    68
    There is something profoundly lovely about seeing Stevens safe in such a strange, adventurous effort, supported by Brams and the rest of his found family.

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7.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 19 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 19
  3. Negative: 1 out of 19
  1. AntonieMorello
    Mar 29, 2020
    10
    An amazing experience different from his previous albums but an interesting purpose
  2. fptomasini
    Mar 24, 2020
    10
    A very good album, served more than my expectations. When we listen to it, it makes us feels sensations, I loved that, What can I say aboutA very good album, served more than my expectations. When we listen to it, it makes us feels sensations, I loved that, What can I say about The Runaround? Extremely awesome, the best in album and one of the best of Sufjan's, he and Lowell did a great job in this record, congratulations!!… Full Review »
  3. Deivakuin
    May 28, 2020
    10
    Este álbum me recuerda mucho a Bjork, lo cual me hace apreciarle mucho más, Stevens hace música excelente.
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