Album artwork for Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens

Stevens's gauzy double-tracked vocals wash across the dashboard of long-finned, drop-top Americana, yet as we race towards the coast we are reminded that sunshine leads to shadow, for this is a landscape of terminal roads, unsteady bridges, traumatic video stores, and unhappy beds that provide the scenery for tales of jackknifed cars, funerals, and forgiveness for the dead. Each track in this collection of eleven songs begins with a fragile melody that gathers steam until it becomes nothing less than a modern hymn. Sufjan recounts the indignities of our world, of technological distraction and sad sex, of an age without neither myths nor miracle - and this time around, his voice carries the burden of wisdom. Carrie & Lowell accomplishes the rare thing that any art should achieve, particularly in these noisy and fragmented days: By seeking to understand, Sufjan makes us feel less alone.

Sufjan Stevens

Carrie & Lowell

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Album artwork for Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens
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Released 03/31/2015Catalog Number

AKR99lp

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Album artwork for Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens
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Released 03/31/2015Catalog Number

AKR99

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Sufjan Stevens

Carrie & Lowell

Asthmatic Kitty
Album artwork for Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens
LP

$24.99

Released 03/31/2015Catalog Number

AKR99lp

Learn more
Album artwork for Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens
CD

$13.99

Released 03/31/2015Catalog Number

AKR99

Learn more

Stevens's gauzy double-tracked vocals wash across the dashboard of long-finned, drop-top Americana, yet as we race towards the coast we are reminded that sunshine leads to shadow, for this is a landscape of terminal roads, unsteady bridges, traumatic video stores, and unhappy beds that provide the scenery for tales of jackknifed cars, funerals, and forgiveness for the dead. Each track in this collection of eleven songs begins with a fragile melody that gathers steam until it becomes nothing less than a modern hymn. Sufjan recounts the indignities of our world, of technological distraction and sad sex, of an age without neither myths nor miracle - and this time around, his voice carries the burden of wisdom. Carrie & Lowell accomplishes the rare thing that any art should achieve, particularly in these noisy and fragmented days: By seeking to understand, Sufjan makes us feel less alone.