Sufjan Stevens' intimate new album is now streaming. Like the previously released tracks from the project, "No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross" and "Should Have Know Better" -- in which Stevens expounds upon that time his mom left him at a video store when he was three -- Carrie & Lowell is quietly devastating. An exploration of "life and death, love and loss, and the artist's struggle to make sense of the beauty and ugliness of love," listen to the full, 11-track album, above. Carrie & Lowell is out March 31st.
[via NPR]