3 Dec 2023

Sufjan Stevens: Resilience and Vulnerability

From New Horizons, 5:00 pm on 3 December 2023
collage image of Sufjan Stevens' face

Photo: Sufjan Stevens

Sufjan Stevens' new release, Javelin, has provoked William Dart to a week of deep immersion in the American's earlier music to find out just where his new elegiac songs fit in.

And as a counteragent against the generally forlorn mood, he ends the programme with a selection of Stevens' Christmas songs.

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Music Details

ARTIST: Sufjan Stevens
TITLE: Flint (For the Unemployed and Underpaid)
ALBUM: Greetings from Michigan, The Great Lake State
COMPOSER: Stevens
LABEL: Asthmatic Kitty

ARTIST: Sufjan Stevens
TITLE: Tahquamenon Falls
ALBUM: Greetings from Michigan, The Great Lake State
COMPOSER: Stevens
LABEL: Asthmatic Kitty

ARTIST: Sufjan Stevens
TITLE: One last "Whoo-Hoo!" for The Pullman
ALBUM: Sufjan Stevens Invites you to: Come on Feel the Illinoise
COMPOSER: Stevens
LABEL: Asthmatic Kitty

ARTIST: Sufjan Stevens
TITLE: Chicago
ALBUM: Sufjan Stevens Invites you to: Come on Feel the Illinoise
COMPOSER: Stevens
LABEL: Asthmatic Kitty

ARTIST: Sufjan Stevens
TITLE: Now that I'm Older
ALBUM: The Age of Adz
COMPOSER: Stevens
LABEL: Asthmatic Kitty

ARTIST: Sufjan Stevens
TITLE: Eugene
ALBUM: Carrie & Lowell
COMPOSER: Stevens
LABEL: Asthmatic Kitty

ARTIST: Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner et al
TITLE: Earth
ALBUM: Planetarium
COMPOSER: Stevens et al
LABEL: 4AD

ARTIST: Sufjan Stevens
TITLE: Mystery of Love
ALBUM: Call Me By Your Name (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
COMPOSER: Stevens
LABEL: Sony

ARTIST: Sufjan Stevens
TITLE: Javelin (To Have and to Hold)
ALBUM: Javelin
COMPOSER: Stevens
LABEL: Asthmatic Kitty

ARTIST: Sufjan Stevens
TITLE: Will Anybody Ever Love Me?
ALBUM: Javelin
COMPOSER: Stevens
LABEL: Asthmatic Kitty

ARTIST: Sufjan Stevens
TITLE: Mysteries of the Christmas Mist
ALBUM: Silver & Gold
COMPOSER: Stevens
LABEL: Asthmatic Kitty

ARTIST: Sufjan Stevens
TITLE: Happy Karma Christmas
ALBUM: Silver & Gold
COMPOSER: Stevens
LABEL: Asthmatic Kitty

ARTIST: Sufjan Stevens
TITLE: We Need a Little Christmas
ALBUM: Silver & Gold
COMPOSER: Herman
LABEL: Asthmatic Kitty

ARTIST: Sufjan Stevens
TITLE: I'll Be Home for Christmas
ALBUM: Silver & Gold
COMPOSER: Kent et al
LABEL: Asthmatic Kitty

 

 

 

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