Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (LP Vinyl)
Sufjan Stevens Vinyl Records
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Recorded in the wake of his mother's death, Carrie & Lowell strips away the orchestral ambition of Stevens' earlier state albums and the maximalist electronics of The Age of Adz, leaving only acoustic guitar, sparse production, and grief laid completely bare. It stands as one of the most unflinching records about loss, addiction, and a fractured parent-child relationship to emerge from the indie folk world in the past decade.
Carrie & Lowell sounds like memory: it spans decades yet does not trade on pastiche or nostalgia. 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.
Tracklist
Side A
Side B
UPC: 656605609911
Label: Asthmatic Kitty
Release Date: 3.31.15
Format: LP Vinyl