As we speak, March thirty first, 2025, marks the tenth anniversary of Sufjan Stevens’ spectacular album, Carrie & Lowell. To commemorate the event, Asthmatic Kitty has introduced a brand new tenth anniversary deluxe reissue that includes unreleased music, a 40-page artwork guide, and a brand new essay by Stevens.
Set for launch on Could thirtieth, the expanded version boasts 40 minutes bonus materials from the period, together with demo variations of “Loss of life With Dignity,” “Ought to Have Identified Higher,” “The Solely Factor,” and “Eugene”; outtakes of “Fourth of July” and “Wallowa Lake Monster”; and the unique model of “Thriller of Love,” which was later re-worked and re-recorded for Luca Guadagnino’s movie Name Me By Your Identify. As a preview, the “Thriller of Love” demo is streaming beneath.
The reissue additionally contains an alternate cowl that includes a fully-framed model of the unique Polaroid zoomed out to disclose the picture’s caption written in a baby’s handwriting—“Carrie & Lowell”—disclosing the supply of the album title (it was written by Sufjan’s sister Djamilah), in accordance with a press launch. In the meantime, the 40-page artwork guide comprises varied collages of classic household pictures spanning 4 generations interspersed with art work and drawings (on themes of dying, dying, grief and the state of Oregon), in addition to panorama pictures Stevens took whereas touring throughout the western US over a decade in the past.
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Pre-orders for the Carrie & Lowell (tenth Anniversary Version) are now ongoing. Consequence beforehand named Carrie & Lowell the 2nd best album of 2015.
Carrie & Lowell (tenth Anniversary Version) Art work:
Carrie & Lowell (tenth Anniversary Version) Tracklist:
Disc 1:
01. Loss of life with Dignity
02. Ought to Have Identified Higher
03. All of Me Needs All of You
04. Drawn To the Blood
05. Eugene
06. Fourth of July
07. The Solely Factor
08. Carrie & Lowell
09. John My Beloved
10. No Shade within the Shadow of the Cross
11. Blue Bucket of Gold
Disc 2:
01. Loss of life with Dignity (Demo)
02. Ought to Have Identified Higher (Demo)
03. Eugene (Demo)
04. The Solely Factor (Demo)
05. Thriller Of Love (Demo)
06. Wallowa Lake Monster (Model 2)
07. Fourth of July (Model 4)
