Consumer Guide Album

Sufjan Stevens: Carrie & Lowell [Asthmatic Kitty, 2015]
How best expiate a conflicted grief--sardonic musing? Depressive rage? Ironic japes? Cautionary tales? Misery so brutal you burrow through to the other side? Surely something with more tensile strength than musical flower arrangements, doncha think? ("Death With Dignity," "Carrie and Lowell") *