Sufjan Stevens Vinyl Carrie And Lowell

Product description carrie lowell is an album named for stevens mother and stepfather and a return to stevens folk roots.

Sufjan stevens vinyl carrie and lowell.

Carrie lowell since its release. There are no dramatic tonal shifts in his songs anymore. The first few times i played my copy it wasn t a great experience the disc was dirty and on playback you could hear a ton of crackling and pops. I bought my copy of carrie lowell at the sydney show of sufjan stevens 2016 australian tour.

Carrie lowell is the seventh studio album by american musician sufjan stevens released through asthmatic kitty on march 31 2015. Sparsely instrumental stevens marks a return to his indie folk roots. The lighthearted sometimes manically happy interludes that peppered his albums is nowhere to be found here. I bought my copy of carrie lowell at the sydney show of sufjan stevens 2016 australian tour.

There are no dramatic tonal shifts in his songs anymore. Released in march 2015 carrie lowell is perhaps sufjan s bleakest album tracing the songwriter s struggle with grief and depression following the sudden death of his mother. Sufjan has been a favorite of mine for over a decade now. The album was given a one week preview on npr.

About 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. The lighthearted sometimes manically happy interludes that peppered his albums is nowhere to be found here. Sufjan has been a favorite of mine for over a decade now. Carrie lowell is a return to the stripped back folk of.

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 lowell takes a turn away from the tone of his previous albums. The first few times i played my copy it wasn t a great experience the disc was dirty and on playback you could hear a ton of crackling and pops. Sufjan stevens has always written personally weaving his life story into larger narratives but here his autobiography is front and center.

To promote the album sufjan set out on an extensive worldwide tour playing almost 100 concerts performing almost exclusively songs from the new record.