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Sufjan Stevens: Carrie & Lowell review – heartrending, conciliatory loveliness

(Asthmatic Kitty)In keeping with two of his previous albums, 2005’s Illinois and 2003’s Michigan, Sufjan Stevens’s first album proper in five years was nearly named Oregon, the state where the Brooklyn-based indie hero’s mother and stepfather – Carrie and Lowell – were based throughout Stevens’s childhood. Eugene, a mid-album track named for Oregon’s capital, lists long-ago sense impressions – lemon yoghurt, dropping an ashtray on the floor, and a swimming coach who called Sufjan “Subaru”.

 

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