Turntable Tuesday | Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell

I am not sure about you but we are HUGE Sufjan Stevens fans in our house! We just love his unique, soothing, quirky and a bit melancholy style there is no doubt. We already own his Michigan and always popular Illinoise so when we heard he was coming out with a new album that was really getting back to his roots were were slightly hesitant but nevertheless excited. In fact our record purchases (of new albums) has slowed a bit recently due to trying to save for some home remodeling projects (that I hope to possibly show once they get a bit further along). That said when we heard that Carrie & Lowell was coming out last week and I happened to be out in the market in a town with a great record store (shout out to Revival Records you're awesome!) they day it released I knew I had to stop in and pick it up.

Carrie & Lowell really does get back to Stevens' roots, it's exactly the type of sound you would expect from him. We had already been listening to some of the first songs released leading up to the album and already knew we were going to like it including the title song Carrie & Lowell as well as Should Have Known Better and Fourth of July.

It's very well known this album is a self reflection album of Carrie & Lowell themselves, Stevens' mother (who was bipolar, schizophrenic and suffered from drug addiction and substance abuse issues that abandoned their family when he was a small child) and his step father of the time Lowell. It documents the time that he spent in Oregon with them as a child as well as his feelings about her after she passed away in 2012 of stomach cancer. 

It's exactly what you would expect both sad, a little funny and beautiful. With the VERY slow transition of the seasons in the Northwoods with Spring trying to arrive and Winter fighting her tooth and nail I just can't get enough of this album, it seems so fitting right now. If you have the chance to pick this one up I highly recommend it!

Credits | Author: Krista & Photography: Fornear Photo