Sufjan Stevens Releases Epic Protest Song ‘America’

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Sufjan Stevens has a lot to say about the state of his country. RELATED: Sufjan Stevens Drops ‘Tonya Harding’ Track That ‘I, Tonya’ Turned Down On Friday, the musician released his epic new song “America”, the first single from his upcoming album The Ascension.

Clocking in at more than 12 minutes, the protest song was originally recorded during the sessions for his 2015 release Carrie & Lowell, and then rerecorded to result in this new version. “I was dumbfounded by the song when I first wrote it,” Stevens said in a statement to Spin. “Because it felt vaguely mean-spirited and miles away from everything else on Carrie & Lowell.