Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (CD)

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (CD)CD Asthmatic Kitty (2015) US 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

the band said: "The main themes of ‘Resistance is Futile’ are memory and loss

The record spans the electronic spectrum from breakbeat and trance

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and it runs through the veins of incoming hyper-animated four-piece CHAI

darker and heavier than her previous album Let Go and was well received by fans and critics

Lee "Scratch" Perry and the great engineers and players of early Jamaican reggae music

“We would have these big communal meals every night

preceding the issue of their second studio album Cuckoo

creating another ambitious and original album to excite fans and critics alike

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It is the most ambitious

Third Man Records (2022) US