Sufjan Stevens * Carrie & Lowell [New CD]

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. Tracklist: Death With Dignity Should Have Known Better All Of Me Wants All Of You Drawn to the Blood Eugene Fourth of July The Only Thing Carrie & Lowell John My Beloved No Shade in the Shadow of The Cross Blue Bucket of Gold UPC: 656605609928 Label: Asthmatic Kitty Release Date: 3.31.15 Format: CD