Sufjan Stevens has announced a deluxe reissue of Carrie & Lowell. The expanded version of Stevens’ influential 2015 album will include seven previously unreleased bonus tracks, a 40-page booklet, and a new essay penned by the artist. Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition) arrives May 30 via Stevens’ own Asthmatic Kitty. Below, you can hear a newly yreleased demo version of “Mystery of Love.”
The first disc of the new reissue contains the original album, while the second discs features 40 minutes of extras, such as demo versions of “Death With Dignity,” “Should Have Known Better,” “The Only Thing,” and “Eugene.” You will also find outtakes of “Fourth of July” and “Wallowa Lake Monster” in addition to the demo version of “Mystery of Love,” which was taken from the original Carrie & Lowell sessions but later re-worked and re-recorded for Luca Guadagnino’s drama Call Me by Your Name.
The new edition of Carrie & Lowell features an updated album cover: a full-framed version of the original Polaroid that reveals the album title scrawled in a child’s handwriting (written by Sufjan Stevens’ sister Djamilah). The 40-page booklet contained in the release was designed by Stevens, and includes collages of family photos spanning four generations, artwork, drawings, and landscape photos Stevens took while traveling across the Western United States over a decade ago.
Revisit Pitchfork’s 2017 interview “Sufjan Stevens: Spokesman for Sanity.”
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Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition):
01 Death With Dignity
02 Should Have Known Better
03 All of Me Wants All of You
04 Drawn to Blood
05 Eugene
06 Fourth of July
07 The Only Thing
08 Carrie & Lowell
09 John My Beloved
10 No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross
11 Blue Bucket of Gold
01 Death With Dignity (Demo)
02 Should Have Known Better (Demo)
03 Eugene (Demo) [ft. S. Carey]
04 The Only Thing (Demo)
05 Mystery of Love (Demo)
06 Wallowa Lake Monster (Version 2)
07 Fourth of July (Version 4)
