Electronic, Ambient, Folk | Label: Asthmatic Kitty
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.
Tracklist:
01. Ousia (02:33)
02. What It Takes (03:23)
03. Disinheritance (01:13)
04. Agathon (03:02)
05. Determined Outcome (02:12)
06. Misology (01:49)
07. Afterworld Alliance (02:47)
08. Palinodes (00:32)
09. Backhanded Cloud (01:26)
10. Glorious You (01:49)
11. For Raymond Scott (00:34)
12. Matronymic (00:57)
13. The Red Desert (02:54)
14. Conciliation (01:20)
15. Ataraxia (01:12)
16. The Unlimited (02:14)
17. The Runaround (03:35)
18. Climb That Mountain (03:00)
19. Captain Praxis (02:13)
20. Eudaimonia (02:19)
21. The Lydian Ring (01:02)