Rhune

Javelin

Sufjan Stevens dedicated Javelin to his partner, Evans Richardson.

Richardson died in April 2023, aged 43. In August, Stevens woke up unable to walk, with Guillain-Barré syndrome, and was learning to walk again in rehab when the album came out that October. His dedication called Richardson “the light of my life”. If you find that kind of love, he wrote, “hold it close, hold it tight.”

Tracks 10 · 42 minutes

  1. 1

    Goodbye Evergreen

  2. 2

    A Running Start

  3. 3

    Will Anybody Ever Love Me?

  4. 4

    Everything That Rises

  5. 5

    Genuflecting Ghost

  6. 6

    My Red Little Fox

  7. 7

    So You Are Tired

  8. 8

    Javelin (To Have And To Hold)

  9. 9

    Shit Talk

  10. There's A World

    Track 10

    A Neil Young song, from Harvest (1972).

Sufjan Stevens

Written by Rhune

Updated October 2026.