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A Very Lonely Solstice

Blue Spotted Tail (Solstice Version)

Preorder it: http://akrec.co/1y05i0M
Available on Asthmatic Kitty Records March 31st (US) / March 30 (EU)

More info: http://carrieandlowell.com

In “Carrie and Lowell,” Sufjan Stevens is a child again or, more specifically, the child character in the family of man drama that often but not always centers on the story of love given, or love forsaken, but isn’t that the same thing to the poet? That the love Stevens sings about having left or given or been born to–thank you, Carrie–is a perceptible wound not only on the singer’s throat, but his sleeve: he wears love’s incomprehensibility, and the deep incomprehensibility of being a son, like a backing vocal on “Carrie and Lowell,” which is also filled with colors, hearts, trees, conclusions, and beginnings,

Sufjan Stevens, "The Only Thing"

Empathetic Realism  
Is my 
sacrilegious revivalism. 
A duality of my mind. 
Seen to be a crime. 
Becoming  
the Surrendering  
Of the divine. 
The divine intervention 
They are intertwined. 
The answer is 
We are not blind. 
Love and truth 
My division 
And the double edge. 
Righteousness 
Becomes my pledge 
To see what’s human 
In me. 
As I intrinsically 
Jump into space. 
I’ll be aware 
of a life 
That took place. 
A soul propped up 
By its own grace. 
The ability to look 
Evil in the face 
Is my faith. 
As I feel peace 
And joy of my race 
A universal 
Connected state 
revealing this 
Clean slate. 
Create to propagate.

Brandy Alexander

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