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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 5, 2023A deeply personal, Earth-moving masterpiece exploring relationship tensions with the gravitas of an apocalypse and the simplicity of a melody passed down through generations.
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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 10, 2023‘Javelin’ is an outstanding record, technically brilliant, and emotionally bewitching.
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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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Oct 5, 2023It’s a return to “full singer-songwriter” Stevens, in a way, but by bringing together sonics from throughout his career and coupling it with frank and intimate lyricism, the gorgeous ‘Javelin’ feels like a fresh take from the cult hero.
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Oct 10, 2023Most songs here start bijou and intimate, and swell to a clanging, polyphonic crescendo. My Little Red Fox begins by underlining the similarities between Stevens and Elliott Smith, before building to a rococo fantasia. Shit Talk features Bryce Dessner on guitar and stretches to eight minutes of shape-shifting, elegiac misery.
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Oct 6, 2023Javelin is an album about the need to be loved, agape and philia, and Stevens shows that he can write about both without trivializing or minimizing the importance of either.