Description
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
Tracklist:
Death with Dignity 03:59
Should Have Known Better 05:05
All Of Me Wants All Of You 03:41
Drawn to the Blood 03:16
Eugene 02:24
Fourth of July 04:38
The Only Thing 04:41
Carrie & Lowell 03:12 video
John My Beloved 05:06
No Shade In The Shadow Of The Cross 02:38 video
Blue Bucket of Gold 04:43
