COVID-19 is impacting the music industry in a lot of different ways. Tours are cancelled, which means that the album release dates they were tied to seem up in the air; record stores are, for the most part, physically shuttered, which means that purchases will mostly take place online. In the past few days alone,…

Next week, Sufjan Stevens will release an album of New Age instrumentals called Aporia with Lowell Brams, his stepfather and longtime partner in the record label Asthmatic Kitty. (He's the Lowell of Carrie & Lowell fame, and speaking of which, how about another album of proper songs, Suf?) Thus far we've heard two tracks from…

Five years after he released the devastating Carrie & Lowell, Sufjan Stevens is still in side-project city. Next month, he'lll release a new album, but it won't be a regular Sufjan Stevens album. Instead, he's teamed up with his stepfather Lowell Brams -- the co-head of his Asthmatic Kitty label, and one of the inspirations…

Since releasing his last proper full-length, Carrie & Lowell, in 2015, Sufjan Stevens has done a whole lot of extracurriculars. He got nominated for an Academy Award and performed at the Oscars, he scored multiple ballets, and he's put out some excellent one-off tracks. His next project is an instrumental New Age album…

Seemingly every time we at Stereogum publish a retrospective on some classic album, someone responds, "Fuck, I'm old." But the landmark musical releases of your youth turning 10 or 20 years old is only one of many ways you can be alerted to your own aged status. For instance, I have recently discovered that Hulu…