{"product_id":"sufjan-stevens-carrie-lowell","title":"Sufjan Stevens – Carrie \u0026 Lowell","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarrie 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"kingslandrecords","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60193777484110,"sku":null,"price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1058\/3474\/2094\/files\/e1ea5f_cc307307dea54b049b7b9b43c4c0df3f_mv2.jpg?v=1784733372","url":"https:\/\/www.kingslandrecords.com\/products\/sufjan-stevens-carrie-lowell","provider":"Kingsland Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}