Live music review: Sufjan Stevens at the Helix, Dublin
Life, death and terrible parenting are some of the subjects Sufjan Stevens delves into on his excruciatingly raw new album, Carrie and Lowell. Recorded as the Michigan folk singer grieved for the alcoholic mother from whom he spent much of his adult life estranged, the LP leads the listener on a nerve-fraying journey to the rockiest peaks of human emotion, by turns wistful, recriminatory and sobbingly sad.
