About six months ago, Sufjan Stevens released the sweeping, ambitious album Ascension. Two days after its release, Stevens’ biological father died. In response, Stevens started working on a massive, overwhelming new project called Convocations. That project swiftly took on extreme dimensions. Next month, Stevens will release Convocatio...

Roberto Carlos Lange, aka Helado Negro, has signed to the storied indie label 4AD following an accomplished decade-plus discography with Sufjan Stevens' Asthmatic Kitty label and RVNGIntl -- most recently, 2019's great This Is How You Smile and this past summer's Kite Symphony EP, a collaboration with visual artist Kristi Sword crafted in Lange'...

As you may have heard, a new Sufjan Stevens album is out today -- his first proper solo LP since 2015's Carrie & Lowell. The Ascension's release has apparently inspired Sufjan's former manager and publicist, Daniel Gill, to share some old tidbits on Twitter.

"Is it all for nothing?" Sufjan Stevens cries out. "Is it all part of a plan?" This anguished outburst arrives about halfway through The Ascension, his first proper solo album in more than five years, on a song named for the seizure and anxiety medication Ativan. Over the track's jittery electronic pulse, he later utters,…