Sufjan Stevens has shared a brand new single referred to as ‘Will Anyone Ever Love Me?’ – take heed to it under.
The track will seem on the Detroit singer-songwriter’s tenth studio album ‘Javelin’, which is due for launch on October 6 by way of Asthmatic Kitty Data (pre-order/pre-save right here).
“Will anyone ever love me?/ For good causes/ With out grievance, not for sport/ Will anyone ever love me?/ In each season/ Pledge allegiance to my coronary heart/ Pledge allegiance to my burning coronary heart,” Stevens ponders within the refrain.
After further instrumentation is introduced in, the musician pleads for forgiveness and gently sings of the “heartache and distress” he’s induced prior to now. “Take my struggling as I take my vow/ Wash me now, anoint me/ With that golden blade,” he provides.
Stevens – who self-produced ‘Will Anyone Ever Love Me?’, and performed each instrument on the one – is accompanied by visitor backing vocalists Adrienne Maree Brown, Hannah Cohen and Megan Lui.
“The primary time I sang the track I began crying, I used to be so moved by the honesty of the questions,” Brown mentioned in an announcement.
Cohen added: “Sufjan is an impossibly courageous and gifted author. Being within the studio with Sufjan is like watching an alchemist at work. He creates a brand new realm, constructing our voices from a delicate choir, then morphing us into sirens raging from the ocean.”
Lui commented: “‘Will Anyone Ever Love Me?’ felt like a glimpse into Sufjan’s previous data however spins into an epic collage of voices and devices. His imaginative and prescient of melody and composition are astonishing and dealing with him and Hannah within the room was pure pleasure.”
The observe is accompanied by an official music video, directed by Stevens’ long-time collaborator Stephen Halker. Tune in above.
‘Javelin’ marks Stevens’ first solo album since 2020’s ‘The Ascension’, and his first again in “full singer-songwriter mode” since 2015’s ‘Carrie & Lowell’, per a press launch. The forthcoming LP’s lead single, ‘So You Are Drained’, arrived final month.
On the entire, the 10-track assortment will see “your entire expertise of Stevens’ 25-year profession dropped at bear in four-minute bursts of choral, orchestral, and electrical marvel”. The discharge may even include a 48-page e book of artwork and essays created by Stevens.
The ‘Javelin’ tracklist is as follows:
1. ‘Goodbye Evergreen’
2. ‘A Working Begin’
3. ‘Will Anyone Ever Love Me?’
4. ‘Every thing That Rises’
5. ‘Genuflecting Ghost’
6. ‘My Pink Little Fox’
7. ‘So You Are Drained’
8. ‘Javelin (To Have And To Maintain)’
9. ‘Shit Speak’
10. ‘There’s A World’
