Asthmatic Kitty

Celebrate the season with Sufjan Stevens' beloved Christmas collection, "Silver & Gold: Songs for Christmas, Vols. 6-10", now available to retail for the first time since its original 2012 release. This expansive set features nearly three hours of festive

Over the course of his career, Sufjan Stevens has blurred distinctions between the major and the minor, between the details that color our existence and the big events that frame our lives. He has turned historical footnotes of States into kaleidoscopic p

The follow-up to 2003's "Michigan", Sufjan Stevens' "Seven Swans" was originally released on March 16, 2004. At the time the Guardian dubbed it "a record of remarkable delicacy", and Billboard called it a "consistently moving, subtly beautiful experience"

Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty) is the newest offering from pop-art singer/songwriter Sufjan Stevens. These are aggressive times. Each morning we awaken to a psychic blitz of breaking news, social outrage, and millions of images and voices shrieking loo

It's been said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture (impossible and absurd). But what about singing about movies? Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine have paired up for a collaborative project that does just that. A Beginner's Mi

Once you've taken in how wonderful it sounds, it'll be time to thrill at how much of it there is, then how dense it all is. Not simply wonderful music, 'Michigan' is a collection of short stories set to song. Meticulously researched histories, in most cas

“I'm constantly thinking about bodies moving through space when I'm writing for ballet – that is what has informed this music, first and foremost,” says Sufjan Stevens on Reflections, his latest collaboration with choreographer Justin Peck. Originally com

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

With two states down and only 48 to go, Sufjan Stevens' ambitious musical map of the Unites States of America should be completed, if he puts out one a year, sometime around 2053. It's a daunting task, but if each subsequent record is as good as Illinois,