Sufjan Stevens Is at His Intimate and Uplifting Best on Javelin

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3.3 • 844 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Jeremy Larson, Sam Sodomsky, and Nina Corcoran talk about all the ghosts, anxieties, and desires that wind through the singer-songwriter's 10th album, and why he's so good at making our tear ducts start to flow. Read Sam's review of Javelin here.

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0:00.0	This is the pitchfork review. I'm Jeremy Larson, the review's director. On this week's show,
0:12.9	we'll be talking about Javlin, the new album written, recorded, engineered, arranged, produced, and
0:18.0	mixed by Sufion Stevens. It's out tomorrow on Sufion's longtime label Asmatic Kitty.
0:23.6	Our best new music review is up on the site today,
0:26.8	and I am here in a van with my friends to talk about it all.
0:31.3	We have Associate Editor Sam Saddamski who wrote our review
0:34.8	and Associate Staff Writer Nina Corcoran,
0:37.4	who is wearing two baseball caps.
0:40.0	How are you doing today, friends?
0:42.3	Good, feeling on brand.
0:43.7	Yeah.
0:44.0	Sam, how are you doing?
0:45.2	What's up?
0:45.7	Doing good.
0:46.4	Thanks for having me here.
0:47.4	Yeah, what kind of energy are you bringing to the Sufyan podcast?
0:50.4	Oh, you know, it's like autumn, talking to some friends, drinking coffee, feeling good, yeah.
0:56.7	Nina, what kind of energy you bring in there?
0:58.7	I feel like I'm tapping into all the times I've queued in line to wait to see Sufjana, meeting random people there, and then meeting them again, it shows it's fall.
1:07.4	It's rainy here.
1:08.3	I'm in Chicago, but it feels like a good mood.
1:10.5	It hasn't stopped raining for seven days in New York, so we're all kind of in that spirit.
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