Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell – Vinyl, LP, Reissue, Asthmatic Kitty, 2015 NEW

Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell – Vinyl, LP, Reissue, Asthmatic Kitty, 2015 NEW Brand new & sealed. No offers please. Fast daily shipping, packed with care. View my profile + reviews! Carrie & Lowell sounds like memory: it spans decades yet does not trade on pastiche or nostalgia. Stevenss 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.