The Ascension, the eighth studio album
from singer, songwriter and composer Sufjan Stevens, is
a salient collection of fifteen pop songs that, with
sweeping editorial aplomb, interrogate the integrity and
sustainability of our human existence. The album seeks to
confront the psychic trauma of our current apocalyptic
condition by highlighting the disparity between survival
and despair - while trying to maintain a path towards truth
and light.
Sufjan recorded almost everything on The Ascension
himself on his computer using a drum machine and a
handful of synthesizers, his goal clear from the start: Keep
it simple. Keep it real. Keep it moving.
Tracklist
Make Me An Offer I Cannot Refuse 5:19
Run Away With Me 4:07
Video Game 4:16
Lamentations 3:42
Tell Me You Love Me 4:22
Die Happy 5:47
Ativan 6:32
Ursa Major 3:43
Landslide 5:04
Gilgamesh 3:50
Death Star 4:04
Goodbye To All That 3:48
Sugar 7:37
The Ascension 5:56
America 11:56
from singer, songwriter and composer Sufjan Stevens, is
a salient collection of fifteen pop songs that, with
sweeping editorial aplomb, interrogate the integrity and
sustainability of our human existence. The album seeks to
confront the psychic trauma of our current apocalyptic
condition by highlighting the disparity between survival
and despair - while trying to maintain a path towards truth
and light.
Sufjan recorded almost everything on The Ascension
himself on his computer using a drum machine and a
handful of synthesizers, his goal clear from the start: Keep
it simple. Keep it real. Keep it moving.
Tracklist
Make Me An Offer I Cannot Refuse 5:19
Run Away With Me 4:07
Video Game 4:16
Lamentations 3:42
Tell Me You Love Me 4:22
Die Happy 5:47
Ativan 6:32
Ursa Major 3:43
Landslide 5:04
Gilgamesh 3:50
Death Star 4:04
Goodbye To All That 3:48
Sugar 7:37
The Ascension 5:56
America 11:56