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Convocations is the ninth studio album by American musician Sufjan Stevens, released through Asthmatic Kitty on May 6, 2021. Recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic following the death of Stevens's father, the album was released in five volumes, with a combined total of 49 instrumental songs.
Convocations occasionally soothes and sometimes hurts; when it’s done, you’re left with a renewed sense of wonder for being here at all. In fact, Stevens made Convocations in response to (and as an homage to) the life and death of his biological father, who died in September last year, two days following the release of The Ascension.
Sufjan Stevens - Convocations [Official Full Project Audio and Visual] 23,948 views. 00:00:00 Meditations00:27:03 Lamentations00:58:33 Revelations01:32:26 Celebrations02:07:08...
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- Sufjan Stevens
May 11, 2021 · Sufjan Stevens – ‘Convocations’ review: 49-song ambient opus is moving, but hard work. The indie icon's grief-stricken record, inspired by the death of his father, runs into several...
- Hannah Mylrea
May 6, 2021 · Convocations is an album about loss, a 49-track piece divided into five sonic cycles that replicate stages of mourning: Meditations, Lamentations, Revelations, Celebrations...
May 7, 2021 · Following the death of his biological father last autumn, Convocations is a new 49-track album by Sufjan Stevens, split across five volumes – Meditations, Lamentations, Revelations, Celebrations and Incantations – each a vessel to reflect on mourning
Apr 6, 2021 · Parts are beautiful, haunting even, but across its two-and-a-half hours it’s a necessary requiem of self-indulgence for Sufjan Stevens rather than a compelling project from heartbreak’s luminary, whose insular yet evangelical compositions have scored decades of sorrow.
