Sufjan Stevens’ sprawling, symphonic mess at the Uptown

“A broken heart doesn’t have to mean the end of the world, or the apocalypse,” said Sufjan Stevens to the Uptown’s hushed crowd last night. “It always feels like it, huh?”

For Stevens, it sounds like the apocalypse, too. The singer-songwriter filled the Uptown last night with his haunting cacophony, filled with fragments of madness, sorrow, and delicate beauty.