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Sufjan Stevens announces tenth anniversary edition of Carrie & Lowell featuring seven bonus tracks

31 March 2025, 14:00 | Written by Tyler Damara Kelly

Sufjan Stevens and Asthmatic Kitty Records have announced Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition), alongside the release of "Mystery of Love (Demo)".

The deluxe edition features an expanded double-LP album that includes seven previously unreleased bonus tracks, an art book, and a new essay by Sufjan. This edition also offers an alternative cover: a full-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).

Designed by Sufjan, the 40-page booklet contains various collages of vintage family photos spanning four generations interfused with artwork and drawings (on themes of death, dying, grief and the state of Oregon) as well as landscape photos Sufjan took while traveling across the western U.S. over a decade ago.

The original album is preserved on one disc, while disc two contains 40 minutes of extras, including demo versions of "Death With Dignity", "Should Have Known Better", "The Only Thing", and "Eugene". Expansive outtakes of "Fourth of July" and "Wallowa Lake Monster" are also included.

The final gem is the original demo of "Mystery of Love" taken from the original Carrie & Lowell album sessions but later re-worked and re-recorded for Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name. The demo version here features solo guitar and voice with slightly altered lyrics.

Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition) Tracklist

Disc 1:

  1. Death with Dignity
  2. Should Have Known Better
  3. All of Me Wants All of You
  4. Drawn To the Blood
  5. Eugene
  6. Fourth of July
  7. The Only Thing
  8. Carrie & Lowell
  9. John My Beloved
  10. No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross
  11. Blue Bucket of Gold

Disc 2:

  1. Death with Dignity (Demo)
  2. Should Have Known Better (Demo)
  3. Eugene (Demo)
  4. The Only Thing (Demo)
  5. Mystery Of Love (Demo)
  6. Wallowa Lake Monster (Version 2)
  7. Fourth of July (Version 4)

Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition) will be released on 30 May via Asthmatic Kitty, and is available to pre-order now.

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