Sufjan Stevens announces 10th anniversary reissue of classic ‘Carrie & Lowell’ with unheard tracks

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Sufjan Stevens has announced a 10th anniversary reissue of his beloved 2015 album ‘Carrie & Lowell’, including previously unheard tracks.The Michigan singer-songwriter will mark a decade since the record’s original release with ‘Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition)’, to be released on May 30 via Asthmatic Kitty Records.

You can pre-order it here.To mark the announcement, Stevens has shared an unreleased demo version of ‘Mystery Of Love’, a track from the album’s original sessions that was later re-worked and re-recorded for Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name.

Listen to the spare, plaintive version below, with slightly altered lyrics.The deluxe edition will feature an expanded double-LP album with seven bonus tracks, a 40-page art book and a new essay from Stevens.

The new artwork features a zoomed-out Polaroid revealing the original artwork with a previously unseen caption written in a child’s handwriting – written by Sufjan’s sister Djamilah.Disc 1: Disc 2: ‘Carrie & Lowell’ was named after Stevens’ stepfather and his depressive, alcoholic and schizophrenic mother, who abandoned her family when Sufjan was 12 months old.