London 🇬🇧 AKR will be down at this year's Independent Label Market at Coal Drops Yard on May 11th. We will be selling test pressings, sold-out limited edition records (and other rarities), deep discount dingers & damages, t-shirts and tote bags, and plenty of package deals! We look forward to seeing you there!!
@SufjanStevensOfficial has written and recorded over 100 holiday songs, released in two collections: Songs for Christmas (2006) and Silver & Gold (2012). We have set his expansive five-hour, 10-volume holiday repertoire to a peaceful yule log backdrop we think you’ll love. This yule log video is the perfect background to your favorite holiday activities: decorating the tree, baking, making calls to loved ones, or enjoying hot cocoa.
To celebrate the start of the holiday season, we will premiere the Official 2023 Sufjan Yule Log on Friday, December 1st, at 11AM ET. Join us for a virtual holiday gathering as we showcase the yule log.
@AngeloDeAugustineYT has just released two new live versions of “Another Universe” and “The Ballad of Betty and Barney Hill” from his album Toil and Trouble, both avail. now on streaming here on YouTube. Check them out here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=410D7...
Here’s “A Running Start” from Sufjan's new album, Javelin. Enjoy this third song a whole three days ahead of schedule and get ready for Javelin this Friday!
Hear the song and pre-order/pre-save the full album here: sufjanstevens.lnk.to/javelin
“Will Anybody Ever Love Me?” by @SufjanStevensOfficial is out TOMORROW!
On the self-produced song, Sufjan plays every instrument with additional vocals from adrienne maree brown, Hannah Cohen, and Megan Lui.
“The first time I sang the song I started crying, I was so moved by the honesty of the questions.”
- adrienne maree brown
“Sufjan is an impossibly brave and gifted writer. Being in the studio with Sufjan is like watching an alchemist at work. He creates a new realm, building our voices from a gentle choir, then morphing us into sirens raging from the sea." - Hannah Cohen
“‘Will Anybody Ever Love Me?’ felt like a glimpse into Sufjan's past records but spins into an epic collage of voices and instruments. His vision of melody and composition are astonishing and working with him and Hannah in the room was pure joy.” - Megan Lui
Subscribe to the video premiere for tomorrow at 9am ET:
https://youtu.be/OLeCIRC4taY
Join us for a special global listening event previewing the new Sufjan Stevens’ album 'Javelin' on Sep 19 & Oct 3. For Oct 3 dates, the album will be available for purchase (3 days before release!), and at all events we’ll be giving away free stuff including totes, posters, and wristbands [quantities & limitations per venue]. Space is limited, so be sure to stop by the shop and reserve your spot.
javelin.sufjan.com/
It’s the year of the rabbit, and this week is Sufjan’s birthday, and since Sufjan was born in a year of the rabbit, we’re releasing a special Year of the Rabbit edition of Enjoy Your Rabbit.
This 2xLP is pressed in a calming deep blue vinyl, punctuated by a subtle rabbit-fur cloudy white. We hope it brings you harmony and good fortune.
Ships Aug 1 - you can pre-order it here: sufjanstevens.lnk.to/eyr-yotb/asthmatickittywebsto…
RELEASE DAY! Angelo's new album, Toil and Trouble, is out today! Listen / buy here: lnk.to/toilandtrouble
@AngeloDeAugustineYT
Today @AngeloDeAugustineYT released “The Ballad of Betty and Barney Hill,” the second single from his upcoming new album, Toil and Trouble. The song is based on the Betty and Barney Hill incident, a UFO sighting in New Hampshire that occurred in 1961 in which the Hills, with their dog, Delsey, claimed to have been abducted by extraterrestrials.
Accompanying the song is a stop-animated video by Clara Murray.
Album out in June! Pre-orders available now wherever you buy records, or on the AKR store.
Born in 1999, Asthmatic Kitty Records was originally conceived as a platform for musical projects by a community of artists from Holland, Michigan, a small city on the shore of Lake Michigan. Some were Holland natives, and others had come to attend local colleges and universities. While the original Holland nucleus has now dispersed to various parts of the country, the fellowship is still growing, with new friends and shared projects with other independent labels. Asthmatic Kitty is now based in Lander, Wyoming, Indianapolis, Indiana and New York City.
Asthmatic Kitty was named after Sara, a voluptuous orange and white longhair who wandered out of the woods in 1995, pregnant, starving, and afflicted with various parasites and ailments, including feline asthma. Although she still wheezes a bit, especially when being chased by her sister Tabby, Sara today enjoys a healthy and happy life of luxury. Cast-off animals make the best pets!