Sufjan Stevens - The AscensionThe Ascension, the eighth solo studio album from singer, songwriter and composer Sufjan Stevensand the long awaited follow up to Carrie & Lowell Available on standard black vinyl or limited edition clear vinyl

It’s a gorgeous

Taking his stage name from a 1964 cult film

we should try to get that echo chamber going

It would be nice and tidy to be able to say that the Cleaners from Venus story ended right here with this rather more than definitive collection of broken or misshapen tracks

Lance Barresi

pop melody

is a homemade affair

haunting ambient passages

listens to what the others have to say about the compositions and then they record what he originally wrote

one of the hallmarks of his songwriting

shouts and cries and pleas

kept writing