Each track on ‘Javelin’ starts intimately: the trickle of an acoustic guitar, the patter of a lidded piano, and the cascade of a coruscant arpeggio. And then, of course, there is that disarming voice, the throughline in one of the most eclectic catalogs of any songwriter this century – soft but strong, as if the very scenes of hurt and hope it is about to share have only galvanized it through the decades. The album pairs musical sweep with emotional breadth, an entire lifetime of feeling woven into 42-minutes. On ‘Javelin’, Sufjan, as you may know him best, returns: offering gorgeous if pained glimpses of himself, so that we may see ourselves more fully.

Disc 1
1. Goodnight Evergreen – Sufjan Stevens
2. A Running Start – Sufjan Stevens
3. Will Anybody Ever Love Me? – Sufjan Stevens
4. Everything That Rises – Sufjan Stevens
5. Genuflecting Ghost – Sufjan Stevens
6. My Red Little Fox – Sufjan Stevens
7. So You Are Tired – Sufjan Stevens
8. Javelin (To Have and to Hold) – Sufjan Stevens
9. Shit Talk – Sufjan Stevens
10. There’s a World – Sufjan Stevens