Sufjan Stevens set to headline End of the Road festival and play US dates
SUFJAN STEVENS TO HEADLINE END OF THE ROAD FESTIVAL IN SEPTEMBER & TOUR NORTH AMERICA THIS SPRING
CARRIE & LOWELL OUT MARCH 30 ON ASTHMATIC KITTY RECORDS
“The Best Record Sufjan Stevens Has Ever Made, also known as Carrie & Lowell”
The Guardian
To celebrate the release of his forthcoming album Carrie & Lowell, Sufjan Stevens will play a headline date on Saturday 5 September at the End of the Road Festival and tour North America beginning in April. Presale tickets and further information are available at http://carrieandlowell.com/tour.
Watch a trailer for the album here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vj9s0U2U2o
Preorder the album at http://www.carrieandlowell.com/
Carrie & Lowell will be released in the UK on March 30 (March 31 in the US) on Stevens’ own Asthmatic Kitty Records.
Carrie & Lowell was recorded by Stevens alongside Casey Foubert, Laura Veirs, Nedelle Torrisi, Sean Carey, Ben Lester and Thomas Bartlett and mixed by Stevens, Bartlett and Pat Dillet. Thematically the 11 songs address life and death, love and loss, and the artist’s struggle to make sense of the beauty and ugliness of love. The album is named for Stevens’ mother and stepfather and is a return to Stevens’ folk roots.
A singer-songwriter currently living in Brooklyn, NY, Stevens’ preoccupation with epic concepts has motivated two state records (Michigan & Illinois), a collection of sacred and biblical songs (Seven Swans), an electronic album for the animals of the Chinese zodiac (Enjoy Your Rabbit), two Christmas box sets (Songs for Christmas, vol. 1-5 and Silver & Gold, vol. 6-10), and a BAM-commissioned programmatic tone poem for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (The BQE). In 2010 Stevens released an expansive EP (All Delighted People) and the full length The Age of Adz, a collection of songs partly inspired by the outsider artist Royal Robertson.
Stevens recently collaborated with New York City Ballet choreographer and dancer Justin Peck on Year of the Rabbit, a modern dance program set to a classical orchestration of Enjoy Your Rabbit and an original orchestral score commissioned for Peck’s ballet Everywhere We Go. Stevens’ second BAM commission Round-Up, an instrumental accompaniment to slow-motion rodeo footage, recently premiered at BAM’s Harvey Theater.
Praise for Age of Adz:
“Something not only genuinely remarkable but genuinely enjoyable”
4/5 The Guardian ‘Album Of The Week’
“Yet again this prodigal genius manages to confound expectations, confirming his place as modern music’s most protean artist”
4/5 The Independent ‘Album Of The Week’
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“Exhilirating… who knew the apocalypse could be so beautiful?”
NME
“This man can do no wrong”
Independent On Sunday
“The most interesting musician in America right now”
Sunday Times
“Stevens’ heartfelt lyricism and stunning pop orchestration both shine bright”
4/5 Daily Telegraph
“One of the loveliest things he has done”
4/5 Evening Standard
“Entrancing melodies”
5/5 Financial Times
“4/5” Q Magazine
“4/5” The Sun
“4/5” Time Out