Sufjan Stevens "Carrie & Lowell" Olivia Rodrigo Okemah Rising is second and

Okemah Rising is second and final installment of this collaboration

Mike Mills

2016 release

mass-produced music

synthesized tropicalia

Sufjan Stevens "Carrie & Lowell" Olivia Rodrigo Okemah Rising is second andCarrie & Lowell sounds like memory: it spans decades yet does not trade on pastiche or nostalgia. Stevens's gauzy double tracked vocals wash across the dashboard of long finned, drop top Americana, yet as we race towards the coast we are reminded that sunshine leads to shadow, for this is a landscape of terminal roads, unsteady bridges, traumatic video stores, and unhappy beds that provide the scenery for tales of jackknifed cars, funerals, and