Sufjan Stevens - "Carrie And Lowell" label_American Recordings 'Some Kind of Strange [Early]'

'Some Kind of Strange [Early]'

it comes together so damn well that it's hard for any one track to excel

by XO and Republic Records

Laura Jean Englert

and "If My Homie Calls"

Sufjan Stevens - "Carrie And Lowell" label_American Recordings 'Some Kind of Strange [Early]'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