Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell emo with Black Francis' lyrics on

with Black Francis' lyrics on UFOs and conspiracy theories keeping things weird while power pop creeps in to amplify the space rock established on predecessor Bossanova

The Beatles and the Soft Machine through his warped rock’n’roll filter

Artwork and packaging replicates that of the original EP

Sacred Bones - SBR-161 (2022) US

after the dissolution of their nearly ten-year run in northwest melancholic darlings Carissa’s Wierd

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell emo with Black Francis' lyrics onLP 569 (2015) US Carrie & Lowell sounds like memory: it spans decades yet does not trade on pastiche or nostalgia. Stevens's gauzy double tracked vocals wash across the dashboard of long finned, drop top Americana, yet as we race towards the coast we are reminded that sunshine leads to shadow, for this is a landscape of terminal roads, unsteady bridges, traumatic video stores, and unhappy beds that provide the scenery for tales of jackknifed cars,