Note: This is the second of a three part series further exploring Sufjan Stevens' 2015 album Carrie & Lowell. Part 1 can be found here: The Sufjan Stevens Narrative Spectrum: A Visual Guide. Part 3 can be found here: The Three Musical Victories on Sufjan's Carrie & Lowell. For links to other articles on Sufjan's music and Carrie & Lowell in particular please see the end of this article.
As I have tearfully listened to Sufjan Steven's Carrie & Lowell in several concentrated waves over the course of 2015 (no seriously) the album has failed to make sense to me as a single cohesive narrative.
