Convocations

The indie icon's grief-stricken record, inspired by the death of his father, sees poignant material swaddled in layers you long to peel back

Two days after the release of his last record, The Ascension, Sufjan Stevens' father died. That was the impetus behind the composite monolit...

This is a grand, enormous body of work from Sufjan Stevens – but it's just not interesting enough to justify its two-and-a-half-hour excess

Rich and complex requiem for a dad. New music review by Mark Kidel