Sufjan Stevens has announced a deluxe 2xLP 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-released demo version of “Mystery of Love.”
Disc one of the reissue contains the original album, while disc two 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’s 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 U.S. over a decade ago.
Revisit Pitchfork’s 2017 interview “Sufjan Stevens: Spokesman for Sanity.”
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