Name: Carrie and Lowell
Brand: Sufjan Stevens

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

akr099cd

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2015-03-30

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

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PIAS

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0656605609928

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

akr099lp

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0656605609911

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Sufjan Stevens

Genre GB

Singer Songwriter

Label GB

Essential

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.LP - Black vinyl with Download.LP+ - Clear Vinyl (Limited to 1500 Copies) with Download. (Sold Out).Tape - Limited to 100 Copies.

Carrie and Lowell

Music GB