Just in Time for Your Monday Morning Cry, Sufjan Stevens Releases a Song Called "Exploding Whale"

I saw Sufjan Stevens this past weekend at New York's legendary Beacon Theatre for his Carrie & Lowell tour, and because he spent his hour and a half set basically ripping every audience member's heart out and forcing us to all think about the eventual demise of humanity and existence, I'm still processing how to appropriately write about it. In the meantime, Sufjan released a new non-album track called "Exploding Whale," which you'll find on vinyl on his tour. In the song, there's a line that is, simply, "embrace the epic fail of my exploding whale" before descending into a dissonant weave of folk and electronic. Of course, it's lovely, doing what Sujfan does best which is pointing out how terrible life is while making it sound beautiful. Let's all listen below.

Catch Sufjan Stevens on tour:

04-14 Portland, ME - Merrill Auditorium
04-15 Albany, NY - The Palace Theater
04-16 Cleveland, OH - Cleveland Masonic Auditorium
04-17 Columbus, OH - Palace Theater
04-18 Indianapolis, IN - The Murat Theatre
04-20 St. Louis, MO - Peabody Opera House
04-21 Kansas City, MO - Midland Theater
04-22 Minneapolis, MN - Northrop Auditorium
04-23 Milwaukee, WI - Riverside Theater
04-24-25 Chicago, IL - Chicago Theatre
04-27 Detroit, MI - Masonic Temple
04-28 Grand Rapids, MI - Covenant Fine Arts Center
04-29 Toronto, Ontario - Massey Hall
04-30 Montreal, Quebec - Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier/Place Des Artes
05-01-02 Brooklyn, NY - Kings Theatre
05-04 Boston, MA - Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre
05-05 Washington, D.C. - DAR Constitution Hall
05-06 Richmond, VA - Altria Theater
05-07 Durham, NC - Durham Performing Arts Center
05-09 New Orleans, LA - Saenger Theatre
05-10 Dallas, TX - Majestic Theatre
05-11 Houston, TX - Jones Hall for the Performing Arts
05-12-13 Austin, TX - Bass Concert Hall
05-22-25 Sydney, Australia - Sydney Opera House
06-02 San Diego, CA - Copley Symphony Hall
06-03-04 Los Angeles, CA - Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
06-05 Oakland, CA - Fox Theater
06-08 Portland, OR - Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
06-09 Vancouver, British Columbia - Orpheum Theatre
06-10-11 Seattle, WA - The Paramount Theatre
07-17 Eau Claire, WI - Eaux Claires Festival
08-14-16 Lyons, CO - Rocky Mountain Folk Festival
08-30 Edinburgh, Scotland - Edinburgh International Festival
09-06 Dorset, England - End of the Road Festival