Home / Music / Carrie & Lowell is Sufjan Stevens' meditation on grief and familyMusic linernotes album music sufjan-stevensCarrie & Lowell is Sufjan Stevens' meditation on grief and familySufjan Stevens’ Carrie & Lowell is an album about the aftermath of his mother Carrie’s death in 2012 and his complicated relationship with her and his stepfather Lowell Brams. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesSufjan Stevens' Songs for Christmas mixes original songs with traditional carols — Sister Winter and Star of Wonder are the standoutsSufjan Stevens followed Songs for Christmas with an even bigger box setSufjan Stevens' Carrie & Lowell debuted at No. 10 on pure sales aloneIllinois was the second state in Sufjan Stevens' Fifty States Project — which he later called a gimmickSufjan Stevens' Songs for Christmas boxes up five years of holiday EPsExploreRated PG paired qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan with Peter GabrielAretha Franklin's 'Respect' transformed Otis Redding's 1965 originalRock Vol. 20: Blend is a various-artists rock compilationRumour and Sigh is Richard Thompson's most accessible albumRyoji Ikeda's superposition puts quantum mechanics on stagePrevious Carrie & Lowell is Sufjan Stevens' seventh studio albumNext Broadcast's retro-futurist sound came from old psychedelia and library music