Fashioned as an album that should be taken as a whole, it sounds lovingly handmade and self-assured as a secret handshake. Track by track, it's equal parts elegy, kaleidoscope, truth, and dare.
A decade after it's release, Carrie & Lowell continues to resonate as one of Sufjan Stevens' most personal and beloved albums-"a fall-down gorgeous and emotionally devastating masterpiece" (The Guardian).
Newly Recorded Versions of Classic Songs from the Era of Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground! Includes "You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will." & "Waste of Paint"!
Featuring Gillian Welch & Becky Stark!
Subtitled "warm earth music for plants... and the people that love them," it was full of bucolic, charming, stoner-friendly, decidedly unscientific tunes enacted on the new-fangled device called the Moog.
Big Symmetry was written in about seven days' time and recorded across four years - amid engagements, weddings, and other music projects. It's a record about LOVE. BIG love.