Stevens' intimate masterpiece

Now she is thus present. Sufjan Stevens' new plate - after deafening, fantastic exuberant 'Age of Adz' - initially surprised with their minimalism. The wonderfully convoluted ruckus of his previous album differs sparingly instrumented songs that burrow but not directly into the ear, it directly into the heart. Stevens' allowed here deep insight into the interior, works the disturbed relationship to one's own mother, although it indicated in the first song, that it is not him to a reckoning. Musical Sperenzchenchen retreat behind the massive, sometimes disturbingly intimate lyrics. 'Carrie & Lowell' - a sad, at the same time but also versönhliche plate and the date are most personal of artists.