Sufjan Stevens - The AscensionThe Ascension is the eighth studio album from singer, songwriter and composer Sufjan Stevens and is the long awaited follow up to Stevens' Carrie & Lowell. One of the most acclaimed albums of 2015, The New York Times praised Carrie & Lowell as "restrained and meticulous" while Pitchfork declared it "a masterpiece." In the time between Carrie & Lowell and the forthcoming The Ascension, Stevens also released Oscar nominated music for the Luca Guadagnino

It also includes the releases he made under the name of Luke The Drifter

arranger Maxwell Davis on tenor sax & Al 'Cake' Wichard on drums

Leslie is a working class lady who spends too much time at work

In this uncertain world

his most popular work was a choral setting of a poem by Schiller: Das Lied von der Glocke

Ensemble Esperanza is looking south

The songs "Can't You Do a Friend a Favor

And although the other three members of the band never disappeared from the scene and were active in other projects and formations

She made her daytime and night time television debuts

so are we physically

Led by guitarist Johnny Moore

After surviving an assassination attempt