August 29, 2025 - Today, singer/songwriter Denison Witmer released mirrored versions of his new song “Which Way” through Asthmatic Kitty Records. Originally captured during the recording sessions of his latest album Anything At All, the A-side/B-side tracks feature one version mixed by Sufjan Stevens and one mixed by Andy Park.

Listen To Both Versions Of “Which Way” HERE

"I originally wrote ‘Which Way’ in 2020 as part of my Uncle Denny songwriting project – I wrote a song a day for a month and recorded them using a single microphone,” stated Witmer. “Sufjan and I kept coming back to this song because of its simple lyric and repetitive vibe. The song is about the overwhelming feeling of indecision – a feeling echoed in the recording process for the final version. When Sufjan and I started arranging ‘Which Way,’ things went in an electronic direction, which was quite different for me. Andy Park and I added strings and natural drums as a way to pull the song back toward the other songs on the album, but months later, Sufjan removed most of that and pushed things even further toward an electronic and drum-sample heavy version. In the end, I had two versions of the song that I loved, neither of which felt like they had a place on the album."

Released earlier this year through Asthmatic Kitty Records, Anything At All was produced and recorded by Sufjan, who also performs throughout the album. A 10-track collection of vibrant and pensive folk-pop songs, it finds the two longtime friends and collaborators working more closely than ever before on a cohesive, elegant creative effort. It was recorded primarily at Sufjan’s Catskills studio with additional sessions recorded by Park in Seattle, WA. Additional contributors include Sam Evian, Hannah Cohen, Meg Lui, Sean Lane, and Keenan O'Meara amongst others. The album’s musical aesthetic marries Denison’s folksy vibe with Sufjan’s signature bells and whistles: lush strings and woodwinds, women’s choir and an occasional jazzy saxophone weave their way around Denison’s matter-of-fact vocals and acoustic guitar.

The album was met with widespread critical acclaim from NPR Music, Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, Sound Opinions, Glide Magazine, Music Connection, MAGNET, Americana Highways, and was chosen by Bandcamp as their Album Of The Day.

Highlights from Anything At All include the “beautifully lush piece of indie-folk” (Stereogum) “Older and Free,” the “beautifully soothing” (Clash) “Focus Ring” (feat. Sufjan Stevens), the sweeping “Shade I’ll Never See,” and “A House With,” which was featured on NPR Music’s “All Songs Considered,” who called it “gorgeous” and “a perfect marriage of Denison Witmer’s writing style and Sufjan Steven’s production style.”

“This is the first time I’ve engineered and produced an entire album of songs for Denison,” said Sufjan. “We did a lot of it in my studio in the Catskills, which is a homey, informal space, not intimidating at all. So I think the songs capture some of that: the isolated, private, casual nature of upstate New York. We also took our time, worked in blocks between long breaks because of Covid and adult-life stuff. So there was a kind of touch-and-go nature to the process. Nothing feels hurried or immediate. A lot of big changes were happening in our lives and in the world around us, so the songs came to represent a kind of safe haven from all that.”

He continued, “I like the simplicity of the songs he wrote, how they’re mostly about domestic life, family life, housekeeping etc. And yet there’s a lot of spiritual and emotional insight too. The songs have a nice balance of the sacred and mundane. You get a good sense of how a hammer or a postcard might come to represent something more transcendent. Denison’s songs find a lot of wisdom in the everyday routine of things.”

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