In the past year, Sufjan Stevens has released his album The Ascension and his six-volume ambient work Convocations. He’s not done. Next month, Stevens and the Los Angeles folk-pop musician Angelo De Augustine will release their new collaborative LP A Beginner’s Guide. When they announced the album, Stevens and De Augustine sh...

Sufjan Stevens has been making new music at a wild pace lately. Less than a year ago, Stevens released the ambitious LP The Ascension. Shortly after that album’s release, Stevens’ biological father died, and he responded to that loss by making Convocations, a five-volume work of emotive instrumental music. Convocations just c...

For the last month, Sufjan Stevens has been rolling out his new album, Convocations, week by week. Written after his biological father died last year, shortly after the release of the more traditional album Ascension, the 49-track ambient collection consists of five different volumes, four of which we’ve heard already: Meditations, Lam...

Often-winged singer/songwriter Sufjan Stevens has unveiled a new song from his five-part instrumental album Convocations, which he’s been rolling out one volume per week. This week’s installment, Celebrations, is the fourth in the project, following the full-lengths Meditations, Lamentations, and Revelations, all ten tracks r...

Right now, Sufjan Stevens is in the midst of releasing his new five-part album Convocations, and he’s doing it one piece at a time. Last year, Stevens’ biological father died, and Convocations is music that Stevens made to help him grapple with the loss. The all-instrumental Convocations is organized around the idea of five s...