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Sufjan Stevens
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
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From the animated video for Angelo De Augustine’s 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
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CARM aka trumpeter and producer CJ Camerieri
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
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The cover of Sufjan Stevens’ 12-minute single
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”
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Merry Christmas, from Sufjan Stevens
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
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Few people do Christmas like Sufjan Stevens
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
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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
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Jeff Mills … the microcosm and the macrocosm
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
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The cover of the Planetarium album, released on 4AD
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
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Sufjan Stevens
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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