Sufjan Stevens & Lowell Brams Aporia Vinyl LP 2020

Tracklist:

Side A

1.Ousia
2.What It Takes
3.Disinheritance
4.Agathon
5.Determined Outcome
6.Misology
7.Afterworld Alliance
8.Palinodes
9.Backhanded Cloud
10.Glorious You

Side B

11.For Raymond Scott
12.Matronymic
13.The Red Desert
14.Conciliation
15.Ataraxia
16.The Unlimited
17.The Runaround
18.Climb That Mountain
19.Captain Praxis
20.Eudaimonia
21.The Lydian Ring

Aporia is a New Age album from Sufjan Stevens and his step-father and record label co-owner, Lowell Brams. In the spirit of the New Age composers who sanded off the edges of their synths’ sawtooth waves, Aporia approximates a rich soundtrack from an imagined sci-fi epic brimming with moody, hooky, gauzy synthesizer soundscapes. The album may suggest the progeny of a John Carpenter, Wendy Carlos, and Mike Oldfield marriage, but it stands apart from these touchstones and generates a meditative universe all its own. This is no mere curio in the Sufjan Stevens catalog - but a fully realized collaborative musical piece.