Tom Dyer’s Top 10 Albums of 2015 – #4 Sufjan Stevens

4. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
Okay, the reason I got into Sufjan back when Illinois happened in 2005 was my kids (they are hipper than dad as should be). They got me to listen and enjoy beautiful, heart-breaking songs about serial killers. I have followed his work since, with increasing disinterest. It all seemed to become more and more contrived and less and less satisfying. Carrie & Lowell is a return to the much more simple, straight forward and emotionally direct. The album is about the death of his mother. It is about loss and grief. These songs seem real. True. Achingly beautiful. I say yes.