First Listen: Sufjan Stevens, 'The Greatest Gift'
Stevens' new mixtape recontextualizes and remixes songs from 2015's gorgeous Carrie & Lowell, while weaving in four unreleased outtakes that fit its sonic template.
A timeless yet specific reflection on empathy and loss, ' 2015 album stripped away many of the singer's flourishes to reveal something barren and reverent, compassionate and utterly human. Writing in the wake of his to grapple with their fraught and often absent relationship, only to locate pathways to empathy and forgiving kindness. It's an album of uncommon tenderness and delicacy, rendered with subtle instrumental invention and uncanny grace.
