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I still have personal dread—believe me, I still wake up wondering why am I here and not wanting to get out of bed. But it’s so familiar now that I understand it and I can identify it and it doesn’t have any persuasion over me anymore, because I figured out how to work with it. But now there’s this new thing. The big question: Who are we? But I like that. I like using the plural pronoun now. It feels like I’m growing up. (x)

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Sufjan in Brussels, May 2011

Sufjan Stevens • 2020

APORIA

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MARCH 27 2020

1. Ousia

2. What It Takes

3. Disinheritance

4. Agathon

5. Determined Outcome

6. Misology

7. Afterworld Alliance

8. Palinodes

9. Backhanded Cloud

10. Glorious You

11. For Raymond Scott

12. Matronymic

13. The Red Desert

14. Conciliation

15. Ataraxia

16. The Unlimited

17. The Runaround

18. Climb That Mountain

19. Captain Praxis

20. Eudaimonia

21. The Lydian Ring

Aporia is a New Age album from Sufjan Stevens and his step-father and record label co-owner, Lowell Brams. The 21 songs on Aporia are tightly crafted, resonating with a gem-like intensity, made 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, suggesting 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.

Sufjan Stevens by Marzuki X