Sufjan Stevens Quiz

The solo studio albums of Sufjan Stevens, who studied the oboe, did not pick up a guitar until college, took a master's in creative writing, and recorded his first album in his final semester for a label he started with his stepfather. Ten albums, 2000 to 2023: an electronic suite built on the Chinese zodiac, two records named after states, a hushed one about his mother's death, a symphonic turn, and two long-form instrumental works. Not counted here are the records he made jointly with other musicians — the discography marks each of them "with" someone, and they turn up as wrong answers instead, alongside the two Christmas box sets and the live album whose name is one word longer than the studio record it came from.