Javelin
by Sufjan Stevens
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Sufjan Stevens bestography
Javelin is ranked 6th best out of 34 albums by Sufjan Stevens on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Sufjan Stevens is Illinois which is ranked number 43 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 20,000.
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Javelin track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 45 hours ago | Map | 496 | 80/100 | |
| 02/22/2026 07:31 | Agent007 | 8 | 91/100 | |
| 02/12/2026 20:35 | Devilwoac | 802 | 96/100 | |
| 01/26/2026 14:29 |  Milhaud | 1,838 | 70/100 | |
| 01/13/2026 02:27 | thepardunk | 2,572 | 69/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 81.4/100, a mean average of 79.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.1.
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Igtonumama 10/05/2025 20:09 | #311221
Ok for some this will not be his best work, but to me, it's a classic!
Tamthebam 12/25/2024 17:38 | #306642
Heartbreakingly beautiful he really captures that feeling of loss and heartbreak without being too melodramatic. Illinois, Carrie & Lowell, 7 Swans and Javelin are amazing albums. Different from each other but his genius is present in all 4 of these albums. Javelin is special to me as is Carrie & Lowell they are both in my Top 100 both rank 90/100.
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Album Rating: 82.70
(827/10)
06.10.2023
Sufjan Stevens (UK): Javelin
1.Goodbye Evergreen. 79
2.A Running Start. 73
3.Will Anybody Ever Love Me? 94
4.Everything That Rises. 75
5.Genuflecting Ghost. 75
6.My Red Little Fox. 86
7.So You Are Tired. 91
8.Javelin (To Have And To Hold). 79
9.Shït Talk. 95
10.There’s A World. 80
Creo que, a veces, las expectativas que nosotros mismos nos generamos sobre algo terminan jugando en nuestra contra, deteriorando nuestra experiencia... lamentablemente eso fue lo que me pasó con este álbum. Pero no me malentiendan, "Javelin" es bueno y va de menos a más, solo que no me enganchó lo suficiente como para decir ¡wow!
canciones favoritas:
*Everything That Rises
*Genuflecting Ghost
*Shit Talk.
English review:
I think that sometimes the expectations we generate for ourselves about something end up working against us, deteriorating our experience... unfortunately that's what happened to me with this album. But don't get me wrong, "Javelin" is good and goes from strength to strength, it just didn't hook me enough to say wow!
His best work since Carrie & Lowell. Delicate, powerful and heartwrenching. AOTY candidate, to me.
Excellent. Poor guy.
For me, Sufjan’s thirteenth studio offering perfectly matches in mood its autumnal release date. Sonically, it is almost ‘folklore’-esque at times and I found it to be the perfect musical accomplice for making apple crumble during one cold afternoon late in October. This quality sits in juxtaposition with the emotive, personal lyric writing, conveying the trauma he’s experienced during the last year or so. Overall, I think this contrast is what makes for a very good album, if not an all time classic.
This sounds like an amalgamation of several of his albums to date. You can hear the sounds of Carrie and Lowell, Illinois, Age of Adz, and Seven Swans easily throughout the whole album. This is really his first real album since Seven Swans in his early work where he hasn’t taken an entirely new sonic route for a new album. It’s very good but doesn’t have the originality and intense creativity of his past work. It’s a great album but far from his best but I’ll give him plenty of leeway considering all he’s been through recently. All love to Sufjan :)
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