這張專輯是在2020年6月30日發(fā)布的，同時發(fā)布的還有12分鐘的主打單曲即最后一支單曲《America》，這首歌與《My Rajneesh》一起發(fā)布，后者是《America》黑膠唱片版的b版，是在《Carrie & Lowell》時期制作的。
在《Ascension》中，Sufjan回到了奠基2010年《Age of Adz》和2017年《Planetarium》的合成器和鼓機。這部分是由于將他的家和錄音棚從布魯克林搬到卡茨基爾(紐約州北部)一個更偏遠的地方的實際影響。他收起了大量的弦樂器、打擊樂器、木管樂器和各種其他樂器，他求助于合成器和鼓機。正如對衛(wèi)報記者Al Horner在采訪中所說:“這就是為什么這張唱片的性質如此簡單:我只能使用我能插入電腦的東西，我的心思已經(jīng)不在那些民謠意象上了。我把我的吉他打包放進了儲藏室，我想我在精神上也把那種美感打包了。”
在歌詞上，這張專輯講述了愛、死亡和毒品，并強烈呼吁反抗現(xiàn)代社會的物質主義、謊言和偶像崇拜。在接受斯賓塞·科恩哈伯(Spencer Kornhaber)為《大西洋月刊》(The Atlantic Magazine)所做的采訪時，Sufjan將《The Ascension》與他之前的作品進行了比較，他說:“我已經(jīng)改變了，我老了，厭世了，我累壞了，我已不再抱幻想，我是一個脾氣壞的人。在早期唱片有很多批判性質的東西;這一切都只是隱藏在快樂的外表之下，但我天生是個悲觀主義者……在靈魂升天(Ascension)之時，我第一次真誠地面對我對這個世界的感覺?！?/p>
The Ascension is the eighth studio album by singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens, his first solo LP since 2015’s Carrie & Lowell and his second 2020 release after the collaborative album Aporia with Lowell Brams.
It was announced on June 30, 2020, along with its 12-minute lead single and final track, “America,” which was released alongside “My Rajneesh,” a track cut from Carrie & Lowell that served as the B-side for the vinyl release of “America.”
In The Ascension, Stevens returns to the synthesizers and drum machines that defined 2010’s Age of Adz and 2017’s Planetarium. This was partly due to the practical implications of moving both his home and his recording studio from Brooklyn to a more remote location in the Catskills (upstate New York). With his wide range of string, percussion, woodwind and various other instruments in storage, he resorted to synthesizers and drum machines. As stated in an interview with Al Horner for The Guardian:
That’s why the nature of this record is so simple: I could only use things I could plug into a computer. My mind was not really in the folk idiom any more. I’d packed my guitars in the "/>
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《The Ascension》是創(chuàng)作型歌手Sufjan Stevens的第八張錄音室專輯，是他自2015年的《Carrie & Lowell》以來的第一張個人LP，也是他與Lowell更多>
《The Ascension》是創(chuàng)作型歌手Sufjan Stevens的第八張錄音室專輯，是他自2015年的《Carrie & Lowell》以來的第一張個人LP，也是他與Lowell Brams合作專輯《Aporia》之后的第二張2020年發(fā)行的專輯。
這張專輯是在2020年6月30日發(fā)布的，同時發(fā)布的還有12分鐘的主打單曲即最后一支單曲《America》，這首歌與《My Rajneesh》一起發(fā)布，后者是《America》黑膠唱片版的b版，是在《Carrie & Lowell》時期制作的。
在《Ascension》中，Sufjan回到了奠基2010年《Age of Adz》和2017年《Planetarium》的合成器和鼓機。這部分是由于將他的家和錄音棚從布魯克林搬到卡茨基爾(紐約州北部)一個更偏遠的地方的實際影響。他收起了大量的弦樂器、打擊樂器、木管樂器和各種其他樂器，他求助于合成器和鼓機。正如對衛(wèi)報記者Al Horner在采訪中所說:“這就是為什么這張唱片的性質如此簡單:我只能使用我能插入電腦的東西，我的心思已經(jīng)不在那些民謠意象上了。我把我的吉他打包放進了儲藏室，我想我在精神上也把那種美感打包了。”
在歌詞上，這張專輯講述了愛、死亡和毒品，并強烈呼吁反抗現(xiàn)代社會的物質主義、謊言和偶像崇拜。在接受斯賓塞·科恩哈伯(Spencer Kornhaber)為《大西洋月刊》(The Atlantic Magazine)所做的采訪時，Sufjan將《The Ascension》與他之前的作品進行了比較，他說:“我已經(jīng)改變了，我老了，厭世了，我累壞了，我已不再抱幻想，我是一個脾氣壞的人。在早期唱片有很多批判性質的東西;這一切都只是隱藏在快樂的外表之下，但我天生是個悲觀主義者……在靈魂升天(Ascension)之時，我第一次真誠地面對我對這個世界的感覺?！?
The Ascension is the eighth studio album by singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens, his first solo LP since 2015’s Carrie & Lowell and his second 2020 release after the collaborative album Aporia with Lowell Brams.
It was announced on June 30, 2020, along with its 12-minute lead single and final track, “America,” which was released alongside “My Rajneesh,” a track cut from Carrie & Lowell that served as the B-side for the vinyl release of “America.”
In The Ascension, Stevens returns to the synthesizers and drum machines that defined 2010’s Age of Adz and 2017’s Planetarium. This was partly due to the practical implications of moving both his home and his recording studio from Brooklyn to a more remote location in the Catskills (upstate New York). With his wide range of string, percussion, woodwind and various other instruments in storage, he resorted to synthesizers and drum machines. As stated in an interview with Al Horner for The Guardian:
That’s why the nature of this record is so simple: I could only use things I could plug into a computer. My mind was not really in the folk idiom any more. I’d packed my guitars in the
