Because while this record is unashamedly about the darkest period of Carré’s life, it doesn’t wallow.
But, ultimately, it’s a testament to the endurance of the human spirit. It's the realization of one's mortality and the impermanence of everything we know and cherish. It's a fearless account of facing the worst betrayals and accepting the deepest losses. It’s an outpouring of pure feeling and visceral thought that captures every emotion that comes with both the grieving and recovery process. On the surface, then, Couples Only could be described as a divorce record, but, really, it's much more than that. “I was homeless for nearly a year, just living on friends’ sofas, and I’m still in the process of rebuilding my life," she says, “but it’s reassuring that we can survive things that feel unsurvivable.” This gave Carré no option but to leave Detroit, where she and her ex-husband had bought a house, with nothing but one suitcase and two guitars. Within the year, everything else-her security and stability, her home and home studio, her cats-had also gone. If that wasn’t bad enough, two months after her diagnosis, her musician husband jumped ship-to put it nicely. As a result of the condition, she’s prone to episodes where her lungs fill up with blood and she’s literally drowning. A few years ago, Carré Kwong Callaway-aka Queen Kwong-was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis and told she may only have a decade left to live.
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