Carrie & Lowell, Sufjan Stevens, CD Noël Wells features 40 of the duos

features 40 of the duos best-loved recordings

Looking back at the album's transcontinental sessions

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songs that when I first heard them I thought to myself

Drawing on advice and up-to-the-minute projects from designers such as Frances Merrill

Carrie & Lowell, Sufjan Stevens, CD Noël Wells features 40 of the duosCarrie & 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, funerals, and