{"product_id":"sufjan-stevens-carrie-lowell-vinyl-lp","title":"SUFJAN STEVENS - CARRIE \u0026 LOWELL VINYL (LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003eRelease Date: 30th March 2015\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003eThe master songwriter returns to his folk roots to create his barest most stark \u0026amp; beautiful record to-date. This is Sufjan at his ultimate best!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003eThe album - named for Stevens' mother and stepfather - is a return to Stevens' folk roots. 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. \u003ci\u003eCarrie and Lowell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas recorded by Stevens alongside Casey Foubert, Laura Veirs, Nedelle Torrisi, Sean Carey, Ben Lester and Thomas Bartlett and mixed by Stevens, Bartlett and Pat Dillet. The album 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.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarrie and Lowell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eaccomplishes 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VENUS VINYL","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":6869548957758,"sku":"VEV-09324","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0003\/6395\/4238\/products\/1498683472638.jpg?v=1519765300","url":"https:\/\/venusvinyl.com\/products\/sufjan-stevens-carrie-lowell-vinyl-lp","provider":"VENUS VINYL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}