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Universal acclaim- based on 600 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 552 out of 600
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Mixed: 12 out of 600
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Negative: 36 out of 600
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Apr 2, 2015This is more than an album. It's an exhaustion of emotion. It's reconciliation, it's guilt, it's vulnerable. Sufjan captures what it means to lose all you wish you had. He lays everything out for the listener and never misses a beat.
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Apr 1, 2015Once you know the background to this album, there is nothing that can be written that won't sound clichéd or gushing.
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May 10, 2015I really like this album. It's a nice album. You should listen to this album. Then you should cry. I cry. I cry like a little baby. Is this 150 characters yet?
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May 30, 2015
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Apr 3, 2015Quiet, disquieting, intensely personal, more intensely resonant. For me, there are similarities to last year's Benji (Sun Kil Moon) and that is very good.
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Jul 3, 2016Perhaps the most devastating, haunting, beautiful, reflective and profound collection of poetry that has ever been recorded; Carrie & Lowell is nothing short of perfect.
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Apr 4, 2015
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Mar 12, 2016Sufjan Stevens's music is a gift to mankind.............................................................................................................
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Mar 31, 2015
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Apr 4, 2015
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Apr 2, 2015
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Mar 31, 2015Beautiful. Devastating. Endlessly replayable. Incredibly personal. Unforgettable lyrics and melodies. I didn't think music could make me cry anymore. I was wrong.
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Sep 23, 2015One of my favorite albums of all time. Absolutely brilliant.
Lemon yoghurt, remember I pulled at your shirt
I dropped the ashtray on the floor
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Mar 31, 2015The most structurally perfect album I've ever heard. Every song is flawless, and the journey Sufjan takes you on, while difficult, is ever so rewarding.
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Dec 29, 2015I have a Mom, and damn it all to hell this thing made me feel so sad. I love my mom and im gonna miss her when she is gone, this album has inspired me to always be their for my family and to treat my mother with as much respect as possible, cause I don't know how much longer she is gonna be around for, and Id hate her to die thinking that i hated her.
Love u mom. -
Apr 30, 2015Motoflu couldn't have said it better...WOW
This one is a masterpiece but as others have warned, you feel his pain. I always considered Illinois his best and songs like John Wayne Gacy, Jr. stay with me forevere. On Carrie & Lowell the whole album stays with you. -
Dec 24, 2015I cannot stop listening to this album. It has deep lyrics which put you in a bind emotionally and makes you feel the story of Sufjan. Each song takes you through multiple emotions. Beautiful album.
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May 25, 2015It tells an extremely sad story, which is only made more impactful by it being so personal to the singer. The emotions bleed through from the the lyrics into the music and soft vocals. it can be a bit heavy at times, but is a masterfully put together and performed album if not a little slow for people who are not used to Sufjan Steven's style
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Apr 21, 2015One of the saddest and most beautiful pieces of music to come out recently. He makes you feel exactly what he's going through. The music compliments the lyrics perfectly. Simple, tragic, and beautiful.
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Dec 3, 2015This was the first Sufjan Stevens project I have ever listened to and I loved it. At first it was a little hard for me to get into being a big hip hop fan but after a few listens I really grew to enjoy this album. Stevens has taken a very calm and quiet approach to every song on this project. But it is very soothing to listen to.
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May 5, 2015One word: Beautiful. Sufjan Stevens is really a great storyteller, and here the story is him, his life, his emotions. Carrie & Lowell, reminds you of one of my favorite Sufjan albums, Seven Swans, the only difference? Here he really opens up, obvioulsy with excellent harmonies and arrangements that only his voice could give life to.
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Apr 29, 2015
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Apr 11, 2015
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Apr 30, 2015Beautiful and piercing. This is a comprehensive album; there are no loose ends. The same skill Stevens displayed in Age of Adz, this time filtered through Seven Swans minimalism. Masterpiece is the term that comes to mind.
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May 18, 2015
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Aug 2, 2015Sufjan manages to create a beautifully cohesive and resolute album on such somber issues. His lyricism is deeply personal, poignant and earnest. Through simplistic, guitar-picked, folk songs he is able to encapsulate the grief, anger, desperation, loneliness and confusion one experiences when losing someone close. By far Sufjan's most honest, engaging and grounded works.
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Jan 15, 2016What a record. The third track and eight track, though incredibly vague with its lyrics, still break my heart when I listen to them now. Sufjan has such vivid memories of things that probably happened long ago.
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Feb 1, 2017
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Jan 30, 2017
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Apr 5, 2017Carrie and Lowell displays some of Sufjan's most intimate emotions. His songwriting is creative, deep, and on a level that musicians seldom come close to meeting. This is the perfect album for a dark and rainy night, and will provoke some of the most unique feelings that any album has to offer.
Awards & Rankings
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May 1, 2015The impeccable music Stevens has created gives shape to the chaos of his emotions.
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Under The RadarApr 16, 2015As always, Stevens' precise details makes his songs ring through with truth. [Apr - May 2015, p.87]
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MagnetApr 15, 2015The bona-fide masterpiece that Stevens' career has culminated in, and likely the one that will come to define his career. [No. 119, p.58]