Sufjan Stevens is sharing Should Have Known Better from his forthcoming album Carrie & Lowell, which is picking up some mighty fine pre-release reviews.

Thematically the album’s eleven songs address life and death, love and loss, and the artist’s struggle to make sense of the beauty and ugliness of love. The album is named for Stevens’ mother and stepfather and is a (welcome) return to his folk roots.

Listen to it here.

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