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Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell | Asthmatic Kitty 

fourth of july / should have known better

"The songs he almost abandoned became Carrie & Lowell, his seventh studio album: not one he planned to make, but an attempt to survive the death of his estranged mother and the ensuing two years of grief.

'For so long I had used my work as an emotional crutch,' he says. 'And this was the first time in my life where I couldn’t sustain myself through my art. I couldn’t solve anything through my music any more. Maybe I had been manipulating my work over all these years – using it as a defense mechanism or a distraction. But I couldn’t do that any more, for some reason.' "

[Sufjan Stevens interviewed: "You have to cast out your demons" - Uncut]

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