Sufjan Stevens
Carrie & Lowell LP

Album of the Year 2015 Number 12. The album - named for Stevens' mother and stepfather - is a return to Stevens' folk roots. Thematically the 11 songs address life and death, love and loss, and the artist's struggle to make sense of the beauty and ugliness of love. 'Carrie and Lowell' was recorded by Stevens alongside Casey Foubert, Laura Veirs, Nedelle Torrisi, Sean Carey, Ben Lester and Thomas Bartlett and mixed by Stevens, Bartlett and Pat Dillet. 'Carrie and 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 and 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.

Produs Nou / Anul aparitiei: 2015

Tracklist:

A1 Death With Dignity

A2 Should Have Known Better

A3 All Of Me Wants All Of You

A4 Drawn To The Blood

A5 Fourth of July

B1 The Only Thing

B2 Carrie & Lowell

B3 Eugene

B4 John My Beloved

B5 No Shade In The Shadow Of The Cross

B6 Blue Bucket Of Gold