“Carrie & Lowell” a new recording from Sufjan Stevens

carrie & lowellAsthmatic Kitty Records announced that March 31st (March 30th in the EU) will be the release date for Sufjan Stevens new recording Carrie & Lowell. Named after Steven’s mother and stepfather, the album covers the indignities of our times. 

These are aggressive times. Each morning we awaken to a psychic blitz of breaking news, social outrage, and millions of images and voices shrieking look at me and this onslaught does not cease until late at night when the last glowing screen fades to black. This world demands our attention with one hand and destroys it with the other. That such a noisy age can deliver an album as graceful and honest as Carrie & Lowell should reassure anyone losing faith these days. Let no one say philosophy is dead, for here is a 44-minute meditation on mortality, memory, and faith.

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 either myth or miracle—and this time around, his voice carries the burden of wisdom. Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait. If youth knew, if age could.

The limited edition first pressing is in clear colored vinyl, which is available for preorder now. It’s also available in black vinyl, CD, and digital. The first single, “No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross,” arrives mid-February. Which can be heard by pre-ordering the album on iTunes or Bandcamp.

Pre-order Carrie & Lowell through the official website by clicking here.

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