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Carrie & Lowell

★★★★★  album

Carrie & Lowell

Sufjan Stevens submits to his estranged mother’s death through unadorned folk, offering no ornamental refuge. ‘Fourth of July’ emerges as an ineluctable meditation on mortality.

what it left me with

Grief eschews apparatus. The most austere accounting, stripped of all artifice, arrives with the force that cleaves.

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