Aporia is a New Age album from Sufjan
Stevens and his step-father and record label co-owner,
Lowell Brams. In the spirit of the New Age composers
who sanded off the edges of their synths’ sawtooth
waves, Aporia approximates a rich soundtrack from an
imagined sci-fi epic brimming with moody, hooky, gauzy
synthesizer soundscapes. The album may suggest the
progeny of a John Carpenter, Wendy Carlos, and Mike
Oldfield marriage, but it stands apart from these
touchstones and generates a meditative universe all its
own. This is no mere curio in the Sufjan Stevens catalog -
but a fully realized collaborative musical piece.
Tracklist
Ousia 2:33
What It Takes 3:24
Disinheritance 1:13
Agathon 3:03
Determined Outcome 2:13
Misology 1:50
Afterworld Alliance 2:47
Palinodes 0:33
Backhanded Cloud 1:26
Glorious You 1:50
For Raymond Scott 0:35
Matronymic 0:58
The Red Desert 2:54
Conciliation 1:20
Ataraxia 1:13
The Unlimited 2:15
The Runaround 3:35
Climb That Mountain 3:00
Captain Praxis 2:14
Eudaimonia 2:20
The Lydian Ring 1:03