Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell Live - Blue Bucket of Gold 12" Vinyl Single (Translucent Blue Vinyl)

Live Performance On Translucent Blue 12" Vinyl!

Asthmatic Kitty Records is pleased to announce Carrie & Lowell Live, an audio and visual document of Sufjan's November 9, 2015 performance at North Charleston Performing Arts Center in South Carolina. The translucent blue 12" release includes "Blue Bucket of Gold" on one side, a cover of Drake's "Hotline Bling" featuring Gallant on Side B, and a digital download to the full 16-track set.

The show, which was designed by Marc Janowitz, incorporated an expansive lighting display and cathedral-like LED columns featuring home videos shot by Sufjan's maternal grandfather, Nick Marabeas. Much of this vintage footage highlights family birthdays, graduations, and weddings of Carrie and her siblings from the late 1940s through the early 1970s, lending the performances the emotional arc of a memorial, celebrating Carrie's life and meditating on her death with a sweeping transcendence that gave testament to Sufjan's central thesis of mourning: that in spite of death, we must go on living in fullness and joy.

"Documenting the South Carolina stop of the Carrie & Lowell tour, this audiovisual album takes a record that thrived on simplicity and adorns it with glowsticks, but each track retains a subtle beauty." - Pitchfork

"Ingenious arrangements illuminate the songs." - Independent

Features:
• Translucent Blue 12" Vinyl Single
• 2 live tracks from November 9, 2015 performance at North Charleston Performing Arts Center
• Limited time digital download of full Carrie & Lowell live album (all 16 tracks recorded at North Charleston Performing Arts Center)

Selections:
Side A: Blue Bucket Of Gold - Live
Side B: Hotline Bling - Live (feat. Gallant)