The article reflects on the author's complex emotional relationship with Sufjan Stevens' album 'Carrie & Lowell' following the death of his daughter. Despite its focus on themes of loss and mortality, the album became a source of comfort and connection, offering a profound, albeit painful, form of expression. The author describes the album as a perfect embodiment of grief, noting its careful arrangements and hauntingly personal lyrics. With the recent reissue of the album, he contemplates its significance over the past decade and the intense emotions it evokes.
The album functioned as the bleakest kind of prayer, the one that doesn't even ask for things, just offers a beseeching glance skyward: Notice me. Feel me.
Yes, it’s an album with a Polaroid on the cover, clearly from a personal collection, paired with two first names.
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