“Mystery of Love (Demo)" by @SufjanStevensOfficial released on 3/31/2025. From the upcoming release, Carrie & Lowell - 10th Anniversary Edit
"Sufjan Stevens Announces Carrie & Lowell - 10th Anniversary Edition – Out May 30
This May, Asthmatic Kitty Records celebrates the ten-year anniversary of Carrie & Lowell with an expanded double-LP album that includes seven previously unreleased bonus tracks, a 40-page art book, and a new essay by Sufjan Stevens. The deluxe 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). The new edition was designed by Sufjan himself: 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 disc one, 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, both featuring a more cinematic mood. The final gem is the original demo of "Mystery of Love”, which was recorded around the same time as Carrie & Lowell. This song was scrapped for the album but later re-worked and re-recorded for Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name.
Carrie & Lowell was the result of an immensely difficult process in which Sufjan’s songwriting – usually a salve – failed him in the wake of his mother’s death. He was eventually led out of a cycle of creative doubt with a rare handover of production duties to Thomas Bartlett. In wrestling with darkness and devastation, life and death, Sufjan was eventually able to begin making sense of the beauty and ugliness of love.
Sufjan toured the album and personally connected his findings with his listeners, a beautiful hand-over of sorts happened - making these songs those of the listeners and their lives and losses and complexities.Since the album’s release the live tour was turned into a live album, so surprisingly celebratory and cathartic as to become something else entirely. Outtakes, remixes, and iPhone notes have been shared via Sufjan’s The Greatest Gift mixtape as well as a collection of “Fourth of July” versions that took one moment from the album and explored its every crevice.
Ten years on, this anniversary edition does things differently to those other treasures. Rather than deconstructing the album or building on it and continuing its legacy, this edition takes the listener back to the moments leading up to and including its release. Carrie & Lowell is presented in its full form once again, alongside a glimpse of the different roads it could have taken. There are new corners to explore, photographic realising of moments previously only lyrically painted, direct reflection from the album’s creator, subtly different weight on certain syllables that speak to Sufjan’s mind right before he shared it with the world.
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:
Death with Dignity (Demo)
Should Have Known Better (Demo)
Eugene (Demo)
The Only Thing (Demo)
Mystery Of Love (Demo)
Wallowa Lake Monster (Version 2)
Fourth of July (Version 4)
Carrie & Lowell - 10th Anniversary Edition is now available to pre-order / pre-save here. All pre-orders will include a lyric postcard featuring artwork designed by Sufjan.
“Mystery of Love” may be widely known from the film Call Me By Your Name, but it began as an early demo during the Carrie & Lowell era. Now released as the first single from Carrie & Lowell – 10th Anniversary Edition, this version presents the song in its original, intimate form.
Video directed and produced by Rena Johnson. Original artwork and select photos by Sufjan Stevens. Archival photos and 8mm film provided by Sufjan Stevens and additional assets provided by Rena Johnson.
Ten years of 'Carrie & Lowell'. Explore the full story in our new comprehensive archive, featuring 'Carrie & Lowell 'and its six companion releases. Photos, video, essays and other materials, gathered in one place for the first time.
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- Originally posted by Asthmatic Kitty Records
Happy 6-year anniversary to the original Top15s 'Burger King Foot Lettuce' video!
(I like the little blur effect I did, I feel like I'm making those documentaries where they do sweeping focus shots on low angle shots of computer monitors!)
Who cares about "Veteran's Day" or "Anniversary of the release of Skyrim" or "11-11-11", we have the anniversary of the Top15s BKFL video! If you need a refresher on what Burger King Foot Lettuce is, look at the very beginning of this video, and if you still don't recognize it, some may consider you lucky, I consider it unfortunate.
This video has brought me so much joy over these years, I wouldn't trade it for the world.
Anyways, here's a celebratory blindfolded sketch of the Burger King Foot Lettuce Burger King located in Mayfield Heights, Ohio.
This is NGC 6251, which Wikipedia describes as an "active supergiant elliptical radio galaxy in the constellation Ursa Minor". What does that mean for astronomy? No clue! Looks like an eye though! Which is cool! But I do know what this means for my Burger King Foot Lettuce obsession! My previous post was on another astronomy related object with the marking "6251", an asteroid named after a discoverer's wife, and in that post I said it's "6251" numbering was the same as, well, let me show you.
6251 Mayfield Road, Mayfield Heights, Ohio. The holy land of my lettuce lamentation (is that a word?), the source of my long nights of research and romaine eyestrain, the place of my, uh, I've run out of wordplay.
It's almost too perfect, a heartwarming story of love in the case of the Asteroid 6251 Setsuko, and this galaxy NGC 6251's almost uncanny resemblance of an eye, it's too perfect! I have gained so much through this BKFL obsession, it has made me so happy. I just wanted to write about this somewhere, I had a lot more written about this, I was doing an impromptu little BKFL history post, but I accidentally deleted it all! Fingers cross I ever do that BKFL Timeline soon, is this what blogging is? Am I blogging? Oh my god I'm blogging.
One great thing burger king foot lettuce has shown to me is this cute little story about how an Asteroid named "6251 Setusko" came to be named. 6251 is the address number for the Burger King in Mayfield Heights, Ohio where the BKFL incident originated if that wasn't clear, that's how I found this in the first place.
The 5th year anniversary of the infamous release of the of “Top 15 Mysteries Solved by 4Chan”, the video which spawned the “Burger King foot lettuce” meme, will occur, specifically on November 11th. A few months ago, on July 16th, the 10th anniversary of the Burger King foot lettuce incident itself occured.
For those somehow unaware of what the Burger King foot lettuce incident actually was, on July 16th, 2012, a image was uploaded to 4Chan with the caption “This is the lettuce you eat at Burger King”. The image showed what appeared to be an employee in a fast food kitchen with their shoes, standing on the lettuce in to plastic bins. 4Chan users however, noticed the employee had not removed the EXIF data from the image, which contained geolocational data on the whereabouts of the Burger King. They discovered the Burger King to be in one Mayfield Heights, Ohio. The restaurant was quickly contacted, as well as local news stations, who published reports of the incident. Three employees were later fired in correlation with the incident.
Now on November 11th, 2017, the channel Top15s posted the now infamous listicle video, which featured the first entry, being number 15 in the list, as the Burger King incident described above. That entry then became an internet meme! Why you ask? Well, here a few likely reasons why:
1: The narrator, Chills, seemingly had a quite unusual, humorous voice in their narration.
2: The spontaneous nature of Top15s’ lack of intros led first time viewers to find humor in the entry. I mean, imagine you have YouTube on autoplay, and you hear “Number 15: Burger King foot lettuce” in the background in Chills’ infamous intonation! Hilarious!
3: Come on, a story about some wacky goobers messing with food and getting an almost sitcom-esque dose of instant karma is hilarious!
4: The entry, and Chills’ voice, was easily replicable and malleable. Many popular edits of the video featured his narration being strung to the tune of Africa by Toto or Mine by Bazzi. Also, do the Chills voice, right now, not too bad eh? It’s obviously not perfect but it does the job enough to make a quick joke with friends.
I hope people can learn to appreciate this wonderful internet joke as much as I can, I will make the pilgrimage to that Mayfield Heights Burger King someday, and it will be the best day of my life.
Me and my brother were standing at the counter in Burger King and saying "the last thing you'd want in your Burger King burger-" and one of the employees heard us and she muttered, "-is Burger King foot lettuce." And when I tell you I lost it
every so often i remember that i live ten minutes away from the foot lettuce burger king and im like. What The Fuck I Live Ten Minutes Away From The Foot Lettuce Burger King
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