Carrie & Lowell
by Sufjan Stevens

Album
Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens
Year: 2015
Release date: 2015-03-30
Overall rank: 68th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
86/100 (from 1,499 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 5 albums of 2015 (2nd)
Award Top 10 albums of of the 2010s (5th)
Award Top 100 albums of all time (68th)

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Sufjan Stevens bestography

Carrie & Lowell is ranked 2nd best out of 35 albums by Sufjan Stevens on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Sufjan Stevens is Illinois which is ranked number 43 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 19,103.

Sufjan Stevens album bestography « Higher ranked (43rd)
Illinois This album (68th)
Carrie & Lowell Lower ranked (389th) »
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Carrie & Lowell track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 88 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Death With Dignity
Average Rating: 92 (507 votes)Comments: View 6
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Should Have Known Better
Average Rating: 92 (500 votes)Comments: View 6
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All Of Me Wants All Of You
Average Rating: 87 (383 votes)Comments: View 2
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Drawn To The Blood
Average Rating: 85 (365 votes)Comments: View 3
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Fourth Of July
Average Rating: 92 (525 votes)Comments: View 14
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The Only Thing
Average Rating: 89 (394 votes)Comments: View 5
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Carrie & Lowell
Average Rating: 85 (362 votes)Comments: View 5
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Eugene
Average Rating: 85 (355 votes)Comments: View 2
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John My Beloved
Average Rating: 86 (350 votes)Comments: View 3
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No Shade In The Shadow Of The Cross
Average Rating: 90 (402 votes)Comments: View 2
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Blue Bucket Of Gold
Average Rating: 85 (344 votes)Comments: View 4

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Carrie & Lowell rankings

Carrie & Lowell rankings summary
Overall rank: 68th | 2010s rank: 5th | 2015 rank: 2nd  Overall chart history
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 !		09/06/2026 23:59 ExTeaSea  Ratings distribution  5,24983/100

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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 85.8/100, a mean average of 84.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 85.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.3.


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From 03/09/2015 23:11 | #136455 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
The death of one's mother is usually always hard to take and Sufjan's grief is keenly felt. Stevens has plenty to draw on here, the sporadic relationship they had, her drug addiction and her mental instability. It can be uncomfortable listening - particularly in the way it explores feelings we often pretend aren't there or in expressing that feeling of being very lonely and very adrift in the world but nothing says 'I Love You' more than the music on offer here and that's good enough.
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From 03/15/2015 12:57 | #136920 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Wow, I didn't think this album was ging to be this good.
I wasn't too sure if sufjan could pull the whole "stripped down acoustic" style off, since the best part of sufjan's music has always been his intricate arrangements in my opinion. But man, does he pull it off.

Carrie & Lowell is filled with intimate, stripped down songs that go very well with the feeling of having lost a loved one. The sparse instrumentation compliments that feeling greatly.

This could very well be my album of the year already.
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From 10/06/2015 02:23 | #151048 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I really want to believe that Illinois is still his best album, but this might just be.
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From 04/13/2015 03:31 | #139409 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Was not favoring it at first, but....

I listened to Carrie and Lowell between 10-20 times during my trip to Hawaii this past week. It surely deserves all the appreciation it has received thus far and should ultimately be the year's top album over TPAB.

The subtle electronic touches are really pleasant.
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From 03/20/2015 09:46 | #137365 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Damn, not all the albums can make what this one did! love at first listen! love every song on it, probably AOTY of the year by far
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