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Carrie & Lowell

Sufjan Stevens · 2015

Carrie & Lowell is Sufjan Stevens’ seventh studio album, released March 31, 2015. It is a set of songs written and recorded in 2014, prompted by his mother Carrie’s death from stomach cancer in 2012 and shaped by his relationship with her and his stepfather Lowell Brams.

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Illinois

Sufjan Stevens · 2005

Illinois is a tightly wound studio artefact—self-recorded, self-performed, self-constrained. Its power lies in how much it builds from so little: cheap mics, narrow bandwidth, and total solitude. It is not about Illinois. It is about what one person can assemble when they treat geography as grammar, not gospel.