Convocations: Limited Edition 5LP Vinyl Box Set DJ Fitz walking in Lin-Manuel Miranda's shoes

walking in Lin-Manuel Miranda's shoes was a daunting prospect

with no expectations or pressures but simply the intentionto enjoy each other’s company and see what musical inspiration may arise from that

released on November 16

the album is haunted with the ghosts of the rich history of the blues

– The Flaming Lips

Convocations: Limited Edition 5LP Vinyl Box Set DJ Fitz walking in Lin-Manuel Miranda's shoesConvocations, the new instrumental album from Sufjan Stevens, moves like a two and a half hour electronic ambient mass for our present age of anxiety and dread; its 49 tracks work through the stages of grief and gladness with emotional mood music that is dreamy, dissonant, vertiginous, rhythmic, repetitive, urgent, and calmthat is, all the things we undergo when we inevitably live through isolation, uncertainty, and loss. Its five sonic cycles