Sufjan Stevens proclaims tenth anniversary reissue of traditional ‘Carrie & Lowell’ with unheard tracks
Sufjan Stevens has introduced a tenth anniversary reissue of his beloved 2015 album ‘Carrie & Lowell’, together with beforehand unheard tracks.
The Michigan singer-songwriter will mark a decade because the file’s unique launch with ‘Carrie & Lowell (tenth Anniversary Version)’, to be launched on Could 30 by way of Asthmatic Kitty Data. You’ll be able to pre-order it here.
To mark the announcement, Stevens has shared an unreleased demo model of ‘Thriller Of Love’, a observe from the album’s unique periods that was later re-worked and re-recorded for Luca Guadagnino’s Name Me By Your Identify. Take heed to the spare, plaintive model beneath, with barely altered lyrics.
The deluxe version will function an expanded double-LP album with seven bonus tracks, a 40-page artwork guide and a brand new essay from Stevens. The brand new art work encompasses a zoomed-out Polaroid revealing the unique art work with a beforehand unseen caption written in a baby’s handwriting – written by Sufjan’s sister Djamilah.
‘Carrie & Lowell (tenth Anniversary Version)’ tracklist:
Disc 1:
- ‘Dying with Dignity’
- ‘Ought to Have Identified Higher’
- ‘All of Me Desires All of You’
- ‘Drawn To the Blood’
- ‘Eugene’
- ‘Fourth of July’
- ‘The Solely Factor’
- ‘Carrie & Lowell’
- ‘John My Beloved’
- ‘No Shade within the Shadow of the Cross’
- ‘Blue Bucket of Gold’
Disc 2:
- ‘Dying with Dignity (Demo)’
- ‘Ought to Have Identified Higher (Demo)’
- ‘Eugene (Demo)’
- ‘The Solely Factor (Demo)’
- ‘Thriller Of Love (Demo)’
- ‘Wallowa Lake Monster (Model 2)’
- ‘Fourth of July (Model 4)’
‘Carrie & Lowell’ was named after Stevens’ stepfather and his depressive, alcoholic and schizophrenic mom, who deserted her household when Sufjan was 12 months outdated. Following her loss of life in 2012, Sufjan determined to make his seventh album a stark exploration into their fractured relationship.
In 2015, NME awarded the album 4 and a half stars, writing: “Pruned to a comparatively tight 44-and-a-half minutes, ‘Carrie & Lowell’ – with the couple pictured on the sleeve – is certainly one of Sufjan’s most fat-free and constantly gorgeous information, but in addition his darkest. There are not any brass fanfares like 2006’s ‘Adlai Stevenson’ or fancy-dress-party tunes like 2005’s ‘Chicago’. That is downbeat and delicate alt-folk drenched, very sweetly, in blood, grief and desolation.”
Stevens’ most up-to-date album was 2023’s ‘Javelin’.