Carrie & Lowell [Translucent Black Ice Vinyl] [Barnes & Noble Exclusive]

by Sufjan Stevens

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

Carrie & Lowell is Sufjan Stevens's most intimate and reflective album. Stevens has always written personally, but with this album we hear his autobiography on full display. Themes of family, childhood, depression, grief, and rebirth are laid bare alongside wonderfully stripped-down instrumentation to give us this quiet masterpiece.

Translucent Black Ice Vinyl Exclusively Available at Barnes & Noble. Carrie & Lowell 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. 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. Carrie & 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.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/26/2024
Label:	Asthmatic Kitty
UPC:	0729920166275
Rank:	3827

Tracks

1. Death with Dignity
2. Should Have Known Better
3. All of Me Wants All of You
4. Drawn to the Blood
5. Fourth of July
6. The Only Thing
7. Carrie & Lowell
8. Eugene
9. John My Beloved
10. No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross
11. Blue Bucket of Gold

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Sufjan Stevens   Primary Artist,Vocals,Guitar
Casey Foubert   Primary Artist
S. Carey   Primary Artist
Ben Lester   Primary Artist
Nedelle Torrisi   Primary Artist
Thomas Bartlett   Piano
Laura Veirs   Vocals

Technical Credits

Josh Bonati   Mastering
Thomas Bartlett   Producer,Mixing
Chad Copelin   Engineer
Brian Joseph   Engineer
Sufjan Stevens   Producer,Composer,Mixing
Jarod Evans   Engineer
Tucker Martine   Engineer
Pat Dillet   Mixing
Patrick Dillett   Mixing