Stevens, Sufjan: Carrie & Lowell (Vinyl LP)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 forgiveness for the dead. Each track in this collection of eleven songs begins with a fragile melody