The heartbreaking Carrie & Lowell, Sufjan Stevens’ public reckoning with his troubled mother’s death, and possibly the songwriter’s best work, is one of this spring’s must-hear LPs. At Thursday night’s tour kickoff at Philadelphia’s Academy Of Music, Stevens brought many of the...

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Sufjan Stevens, "Carrie & Lowell" (Asthmatic Kitty)

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The musician's first album in five years has been described as a return to his 'folk roots'