Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell

Thematically, the 11 songs deal with life and death, love and loss, and the artist's struggle to understand love in all its beauty and ugliness. Carrie & Lowell was recorded by Stevens himself. With Casey Foubert, Laura Veirs, Nedelle Torrisi, Sean Carey, Ben Lester and Thomas Bartlett. Mixed by Stevens, Bartlett and Pat Dillet.

Sufjan Stevens currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. His penchant for epic concepts moved him to two stateside albums (Michigan & Illinois), a collection of sacred and biblical songs (Seven Swans), an electronic album for the animals of the Chinese Zodiac (Enjoy Your Rabbit), two Christmas box sets (Songs for Christmas, vol. 1-5 and Silver & Gold, vol. 6-10) and a groundbreaking tone poem commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music, or BAM, for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (The BQE).

In 2010, Stevens released a format-busting EP (All Delighted People) and the full-length album The Age of Adz, a collection of songs at least partially inspired by Outsider artist Royal Robertson.

"Once again Stevens shows his qualities on guitar, banjo and piano, creating romantic, elegiac song miniatures with no percussion, no electronica and showing himself to be an atmospheric arranger with lo-fi charm." (Audio, June 2015).

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