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In “Carrie & Lowell,” Sufjan Stevens is a child again or, more specifically, the child character in the family of man drama that often but not always centers on the story of love given, or love forsaken –but isn’t that the same thing to the poet? That the love Stevens sings about having left or given or been born to –thank you, Carrie– is a perceptible wound not only on the singer’s throat, but his sleeve: he wears love’s incomprehensibility, and the deep incomprehensibility of being a son, like a backing vocal on “Carrie & Lowell,” which is also filled with colors, hearts, trees, conclusions, and beginnings, all adding up to a special kind of intimacy.
Stevens discusses his family and inspiration for this album in a February 2015 interview with Pitchfork magazine.
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