SUFJAN STEVENS - Javelin LP Newspaper Faith in Institutions is an

Faith in Institutions is an unrelentingly bleak record

And he continued to play on them

where strands of psychedelia

with a touch of dreamy americana blent in

A keen understanding of the traditional source material House and Land pulls from allows the duo the freedom to experiment

SUFJAN STEVENS - Javelin LP Newspaper Faith in Institutions is anEach track on Javelin starts intimately: the trickle of an acoustic guitar, the patter of a lidded piano, and the cascade of a coruscant arpeggio. And then, of course, there is that disarming voice, the throughline in one of the most eclectic catalogs of any songwriter this century soft but strong, as if the very scenes of hurt and hope it is about to share have only galvanized it through the decades. Javelin pairs musical sweep with emotional