I first learned that Sufjan Stevens was releasing Javelin on August 14th, 2023, while emptying my bedroom in New York City and preparing to pack for Kenyon. I decided that a new Sufjan album, let alone his first “folk singer-songwriter” album since 2015’s Carrie and Lowell, was some sort of sign from the universe that my first semester at Kenyon wouldn’t be quite as daunting as I had made it out to be in my head.
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