Song of the Day: Beautiful, reflective folk-pop by the singer-songwriter from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, joined by long-time friend and here producer Sufjan Stevens on backing vocals with this opening track from the forthcoming album, Anything At All, out 14 February 2025 on Asthmatic Kitty Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Sufjan Stevens - So You Are Tired
Song of the Day: A beautiful, intimate, delicate-yet-cutting lullaby-like breakup new song by the acclaimed US artist, heralding his forthcoming new album, Javelin, the first since 2020’s The Ascension, but one more akin to his full singer-songwriter mode, 2015’s powerfully moving Carrie & Lowell
Read moreSong of the Day: Angelo De Augustine - The Ballad of Betty and Barney Hill
Song of the Day: A change of pace today with a beautifully dream-like, otherworldly, beguiling psych-acoustic number of semi-whispered vocals, based on on the story of a 1961 UFO sighting in New Hampshire in which the Hills couple, with their dog, Delsey, claimed to have been abducted by extraterrestrials
Read moreSong of the Day: CARM – Song of Trouble (feat. Sufjan Stevens)
Song of the Day: A beautiful collaboration between the New Jersey trumpeter aka CJ Camerieri and the Detroit singer-songwriter about meditative struggles captured via sublime orchestration and sound, taken from CARM’s debut album
Read moreSufjan Stevens: America / My Rajneesh
Song of the Day: After Janelle Monáe’s democracy-themed Turntables, two extraordinary new songs by the American singer-songwriter from his forthcoming album The Ascension, the first described as "a protest song against the sickness of American culture”
Read moreSufjan Stevens – Christmas In The Room
Song of the Day: From the prolific US singer-songwriter’s second box set of festive songs, Silver and Gold, a cosy, beautiful, if slightly melancholy of depiction of a couple-only non-family occasion of just watching TV
Read moreSufjan Stevens – Christmas Unicorn
Song of the Day: Christmas is a time of tradition and cliches, but if there's one artist who manages to address the festive season with full enthusiasm but in a altogether alternative manner, it is the Detroit-born, Brooklyn-based singer
Read moreSufjan Stevens – Fourth of July / Death With Dignity
Song of the Day: A time to reflect in a different way on this traditional US day of celebration with two from Stevens' extraordinary 2015 album Carrie & Lowell, a tribute to his dead mother and stepfather
Read moreJeff Mills – Mercury, Venus and Saturn from the album Planets
Song of the Day: Revolving from yesterday's Planetarium, we sample a Holst-inspired suite of full classical electronica played with orchestra and written by the Detroit DJ best known for techno
Read moreSufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly & James McAlister – Mercury (from Planetarium)
Song of the Day: After yesterday's transitional Mercury Rev track, we turn to Mercury itself, the last song from a space collaboration that contains otherworldly, ethereal music that captures change and myth
Read moreSufjan Stevens – Chicago
Song of the Day: All things go! Our journey moves from Paul Simon's bus to another landmark of hope and adventure by Stevens from his groundbreaking Illinois album
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