Today, March 31st, 2025, marks the 10th anniversary of Sufjan Stevens’ spectacular album, Carrie & Lowell. To commemorate the occasion, Asthmatic Kitty has announced a new 10th anniversary deluxe reissue featuring unreleased music, a 40-page art book, and a new essay by Stevens.
Set for release on May 30th, the expanded edition boasts 40 minutes bonus material from the era, including demo versions of “Death With Dignity,” “Should Have Known Better,” “The Only Thing,” and “Eugene”; outtakes of “Fourth of July” and “Wallowa Lake Monster”; and the original version of “Mystery of Love,” which was later re-worked and re-recorded for Luca Guadagnino’s film Call Me By Your Name. As a preview, the “Mystery of Love” demo is streaming below.
The reissue also includes an alternate cover featuring a fully-framed version of the original Polaroid zoomed out to reveal the photo’s caption written in a child’s handwriting—“Carrie & Lowell”—disclosing the source of the album title (it was written by Sufjan’s sister Djamilah), according to a press release. Meanwhile, the 40-page art book contains various collages of vintage family photos spanning four generations interspersed with artwork and drawings (on themes of death, dying, grief and the state of Oregon), as well as landscape photos Stevens took while traveling across the western US over a decade ago.
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Pre-orders for the Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition) are now ongoing. Consequence previously named Carrie & Lowell the 2nd best album of 2015.
Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition) Artwork:
Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition) Tracklist:
Disc 1:
01. Death with Dignity
02. Should Have Known Better
03. All of Me Wants All of You
04. Drawn To the 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
Disc 2:
01. Death with Dignity (Demo)
02. Should Have Known Better (Demo)
03. Eugene (Demo)
04. The Only Thing (Demo)
05. Mystery Of Love (Demo)
06. Wallowa Lake Monster (Version 2)
07. Fourth of July (Version 4)
