Carrie & Lowell (studio album)
by Sufjan Stevens

Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens
Year: 2015
Release date: 2015-03-30
Overall rank: 68th   
Average Rating: 
86/100 (from 1,481 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top 5 albums of 2015 (2nd)
Award Top 10 albums 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 29 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 20,465.

Sufjan Stevens album bestography « Higher ranked (43rd)
Illinois
This album (68th)
Carrie & Lowell
Lower ranked (367th) »
The Age Of Adz

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Carrie & Lowell rankings

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Overall rank: 68th | 2010s rank: 5th | 2015 rank: 2nd

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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 10/24/2025 16:34 | #311460
This album is so heartbreaking and is also easily top 10 cmon.
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From 10/10/2025 22:12 | #311310
His best album. In the top 2 most emotionally charged albums of all time, alongside Hospice by the Antlers.
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From 08/06/2025 21:42 | #310427
Excelent album!
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From 07/17/2025 08:04 | #310188
The melody of most of this album was pretty challenging for me to connect to hook up onto.
I personally prefer Illinois a lot more
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From 02/20/2024 15:11 | #302092
There is no doubt about it. This is a beautiful and deeply poignant album, and it has a sound all its own. I had to stop listening to it at some point, though, simply because it became so ubiquitous in films and tv programmes. It came to serve as a kind of shorthand for grief and melancholy, and for me that stripped it of some of its power.
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From 09/15/2023 15:48 | #299124
Es uno de los álbumes más consistentes que he escuchado en mi vida, debido a que cada una de las canciones están tan perfectamente integradas, que es imposible saltarse alguna. Desde luego que tengo mis favoritas como "Death with Dignity", "Should Have Kknow Better", "Fourt of July", "The Only Thing" y "No Shade In The Shadow Of The Cross" pero todas las canciones aquí son tan profundas, introspectivas, deprimentes pero a la vez muy tranquilas y hermosas, que simplemente es un álbum perfecto, y probablemente mi favorito de Sufjan Stevens.
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From 06/08/2023 16:13 | #297453
Emotional, heartfelt and deeply personal. It's amazing how detailed everything is while still feeling completely universal.
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From 05/05/2023 18:26 | #296645
This is a lovely, tender, record. In terms of songwriting its not very impressive at all, but its competent, and lyrically its very good.
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From 04/12/2023 17:13 | #296018
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La oda, el duelo y el come to terms con la muerte. Sufjan plasma su alma en puño y letra para describir la muerte de su madre. Después de Age of Adz, el artista regresa a sus raíces folk como en la frugal primeriza Michigan o en la idiosincrática y célebre Illinois.

Cada tema se siente como una pieza de poesía con múltiples texturas que parece aportar al bigger picture que configura el álbum como un todo. Se siente un ejercicio terapéutico y catártico; la aceptación y la realización que, después de todo, la vida sigue, y las personas que se han ido han forjado la misma para bien o mal. ¿Se puede reconciliar uno con los muertos? Acá Sufjan intenta hacerlo, más evidentemente en los diálogos intercalados entre él y su madre en Fourth of July.

Finales como el de Death with Dignity o el de Carrie & Lowell son aquel respiro profundo que toma el cantautor ante el inexorable vacío que lo rodea. Son tiempos muertos de una belleza indescriptible, un momento de self-consciousness y alineación de los propios pensamientos con aquellos recuerdos y personas.

Aparte del ya clásico “We’re all gonna die”, hay dos momentos en específico que me tocan más fuerte. Quizá porque son de dos temas que prefiero. Sin contar, por supuesto, la belleza de The Only Thing en la totalidad de sus palabras.

I forgive you, mother, I can hear you, And I long to be near you, but every road, leads to an end. (Death with Dignity)
There's blood on that blade. Fuck me, I'm falling apart. (No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross)
El mejor disco de Sufjan Stevens.
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