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Convocations: Limited Edition 5LP Vinyl Box Set 20s Okemah Rising intends to raiseConvocations, 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