Sufjan Stevens has announced Convocations, a five-volume album that follows on the heels of last year’s The Ascension.

The instrumental LP will be in tribute to his biological father, who died in September 2020, two days after the release of The Ascension. Each volume from Convocations is meant to reflect a different stage of the mourning process; a tweet from Stevens’ label, Asthmatic Kitty, described it as “a 49-track reflection on a year of anxiety, uncertainty, isolation, and loss.”

On Tuesday, Stevens released the first single from the collection, “Meditation V.