Carrie & Lowell, by Sufjan Stevens

Carrie & Lowell

by Sufjan Stevens

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giacomo just reedemed a download code i had from the vinyl i bought i don't even know how many years ago, and that i found at the bottom of the drawer of my desk while i was cleaning - and everytime i hear the first seconds of Death with dignity, something happens. this album is special, a space for personal recollection working both when you are good and when you aren't, capable of giving a gentle push towards reconnection with the world outside with a renewed, crystalline gaze Favorite track: The Only Thing.

nycjus "the wounded healer" ~ from the depths of my heart, thank you. hugs, Favorite track: All Of Me Wants All Of You.

Amanda Kauffman I only truly connected with this album after the death of my own mother, but now I regard it as one of my favorite of all time. Hauntingly sad and starkly beautiful at the same time. A masterpiece. Favorite track: Death with Dignity.

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1.	Death with Dignity 03:59	buy track
2.	Should Have Known Better 05:05	buy track
3.	All Of Me Wants All Of You 03:41	buy track
4.	Drawn to the Blood 03:16	buy track
5.	Eugene 02:24	buy track
6.	Fourth of July 04:38	buy track
7.	The Only Thing 04:41	buy track
8.	Carrie & Lowell 03:12 video	buy track
9.	John My Beloved 05:06	buy track
10.	No Shade In The Shadow Of The Cross 02:38 video	buy track
11.	Blue Bucket of Gold 04:43	buy track

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In "Carrie and Lowell," Sufjan Stevens is a child again or, more specifically, the child character in the family of man drama that often but not always centers on the story of love given, or love forsaken, but isn't that the same thing to the poet? That the love Stevens sings about having left or given or been born to--thank you, Carrie--is a perceptible wound not only on the singer's throat, but his sleeve: he wears love's incomprehensibility, and the deep incomprehensibility of being a son, like a backing vocal on "Carrie and Lowell," which is also filled with colors, hearts, trees, conclusions, and beginnings, all adding up to the kind of intimacy that caught my eye the morning I sat in the diner waiting for the sun to get stronger as I saw intimacy pass by while going about it's business, like something sung and felt by Sufjan Stevens on his new beautiful solitary and rich record filled with faith and disbelief and the resurrection of trust and dreams. - HILTON ALS

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released March 31, 2015

All songs by Sufjan Stevens ©2015 Sufjan Stevens Music/ASCAP
Performed by: Sufjan Stevens, Casey Foubert, Laura Veirs, Nedelle Torrisi, Sean Carey, Ben Lester, and Thomas Bartlett

Recorded variously at:

Flora, Portland, Oregon (engineered by Tucker Martine)
Black Watch, Norman, Oklahoma (engineered by Chad Copelin and Jarod Evans)
April Base, Eau Claire, Wisconsin (engineered by Brian Joseph)
Pat Dillet’s studio somewhere midtown Manhattan
And at Sufjan’s office in Dumbo, Brooklyn
Some tracks were also recorded on an iPhone in a hotel room in Klamath Falls, Oregon

Mixed by Sufjan Stevens, Thomas Bartlett, and Pat Dillet

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Sufjan Stevens is a singer-songwriter living in New York City.

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