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5 de mai. de 2021 · His latest work, Convocations, is one of his most expansive undertakings yet, and yet it reads less like a challenge and more like a mysterious plane through which he’s being drawn. Created as an homage to Stevens’s father, who passed away in September 2020, Convocations (out May 6) refigures the stages of grief as musical movements ...
6 de abr. de 2021 · Convocations is undoubtedly cathartic. Parts are beautiful, haunting even, but across its two-and-a-half hours it’s a necessary requiem of self-indulgence for Sufjan Stevens rather than a compelling project from heartbreak’s luminary, whose insular yet evangelical compositions have scored decades of sorrow. Full Review.
6 de mai. de 2021 · Sufjan Stevens ’ new 49-track space music odyssey Convocations wrestles with this not through verse and acoustic instruments, but in a cosmic grapple between melody and atonality. Convocations is a precarious and complicated release, like a bough of a flowering tree buckling under too much weight, or a laugh escaping the mouth of someone too tired of weeping.
6 de mai. de 2021 · 49 track album
6 de mai. de 2021 · A Beginner's Mind. 2021. The Greatest Gift. 2017. The Age of Adz. 2010. Seven Swans. 2004. Listen to Convocations by Sufjan Stevens on Apple Music. 2021. 49 Songs.
6 de mai. de 2021 · Your reception towards Convocations will depend on your patience, your tolerance for experimental albums, and whether you're even a fan of Stevens' instrumental work to begin with. If you're not, then Stevens exploring grief via Brian Eno-style minimalism is not going to be what swings the pendulum for you.
Convocations, the new instrumental album from Sufjan Stevens, moves like a two-and-a-half-hour electronic/ambient mass for our present age of anxiety and dread; its 49 tracks work through the stages of grief and gladness with emotional mood music that is dreamy, dissonant, vertiginous, rhythmic, repetitive, urgent, and calm—that is, all the things we undergo when we inevitabl...
