February 16, 2015

Sufjan Stevens’ Carrie & Lowell Coming March 31st

SUFJAN STEVENS DEBUTS “NO SHADE IN THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS”

CARRIE & LOWELL OUT MARCH 31, SET TO TOUR

NORTH AMERICA THIS SPRING

ASTHMATIC KITTY RECORDS TO HOST ALBUM LISTENING PARTIES WORLDWIDE 

“The Best Record Sufjan Stevens Has Ever Made, also known as Carrie & Lowell”—The Guardian

“The most interesting musician in America right now”—Sunday Times

“As important questions about music’s worth in the age

 of free continue to swirl around him, Sufjan’s still combating instant-gratification culture the best way he knows how.”—Pitchfork

 “Yet again this prodigal genius manages to confound expectations, confirming his place as modern music’s most protean artist”—The Independent

The Age of Adz named #6 Top 10 Albums of 2010 (TIME), #10 20 Best Albums of 2010 (MTV)

Illinois named Best Album of the Decade (Paste),

#78 Best Album of 2000s (Rolling Stone), #16 Best Album of the 2000s (Pitchfork), Decade’s 50 Most Important Recordings (NPR)

No Shade In The Shadow Of The Cross,” the first track from Sufjan StevensCarrie & Lowell, debuts today. Listen to it via YouTube HERE. Carrie & Lowell will be released March 31 on Stevens’ own Asthmatic Kitty Records. Watch a trailer for the album HERE and preorder the album HERE. Additionally, Asthmatic Kitty Records will host local listening parties with independent record stores and venues between now and mid-March. See below for details and visit http://www.carrieandlowell.com/listen for further announcements.

To celebrate the release the album, Stevens will tour North America beginning in April. The headline dates include stops at New York’s Beacon Theater and Washington, D.C.’s DAR Constitution Hall. Stevens will also headline the U.K.’s End of the Road festival this September. Presale tickets for the U.S. dates and further information are available at http://carrieandlowell.com/tour.

Carrie & Lowell was recorded by Stevens alongside Casey Foubert, Laura Veirs, Nedelle Torrisi, Sean Carey, Ben Lester and Thomas Bartlett and mixed by Stevens, Bartlett and Pat Dillet. Thematically the 11 songs address life and death, love and loss, and the artist’s struggle to make sense of the beauty and ugliness of love. The album is named for Stevens’ mother and stepfather and is a return to Stevens’ folk roots.

A singer-songwriter currently living in Brooklyn, NY, Stevens’ preoccupation with epic concepts has motivated two state records (Michigan & Illinois), a collection of sacred and biblical songs (Seven Swans), an electronic album for the animals of the Chinese zodiac (Enjoy Your Rabbit), two Christmas box sets (Songs for Christmas, vol. 1-5 and Silver & Gold, vol. 6-10), and a BAM-commissioned programmatic tone poem for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (The BQE). In 2010 Stevens released an expansive EP (All Delighted People) and the full length The Age of Adz, a collection of songs partly inspired by the outsider artist Royal Robertson.

Stevens recently collaborated with New York City Ballet choreographer and dancer Justin Peck on Year of the Rabbit, a modern dance program set to a classical orchestration of Enjoy Your Rabbit and an original orchestral score commissioned for Peck’s ballet Everywhere We Go. Stevens’ second BAM commission Round-Up, an instrumental accompaniment to slow-motion rodeo footage, recently premiered at BAM’s Harvey Theater.

SUFJAN STEVENS LISTENING PARTIES

February 21-22                        Tokyo            Shinkiba Studio Coast with Hostess Club Weekender

March 5                            Indianapolis, IN        Indianapolis Museum of Art with Indy CD & Vinyl

March 10                                 London                                                                   Rough Trade East

March 10                             Nottingham                                                                        Rough Trade

March 10                                 Bristol                                                                                          Rise

March 10                                 Dublin                                                  Tower/Douglas Hyde Gallery

March 10                               Hamburg                                                                                 Michelle

March 10                                  Berlin                                                                        Bis Auf Messer

SUFJAN STEVENS LIVE

April 9                              Philadelphia, PA                                                           Academy of Music

April 10                            Philadelphia, PA                                                           Academy of Music

April 11                              New York, NY                                                                  Beacon Theater

April 12                               Hartford, CT                     The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

April 14                               Portland, ME                                                             Merrill Auditorium

April 15                                Albany, NY                                                               The Palace Theater

April 16                              Cleveland, OH                                         Cleveland Masonic Auditorium

April 17                             Columbus, OH                                                                   Palace Theater

April 18                            Indianapolis, IN                                                            The Murat Theatre

April 20                              St. Louis, MO                                                       Peabody Opera House

April 21                           Kansas City, MO                                                              Midland Theater

April 22                           Minneapolis, MN                                                      Northrop Auditorium

April 23                             Milwaukee, WI                                                              Riverside Theater

April 24                                Chicago, IL                                                                   Chicago Theatre

April 25                                Chicago, IL                                                                   Chicago Theatre

April 27                                Detroit, MI                                                                   Masonic Temple

April 28                           Grand Rapids, MI                                              Covenant Fine Arts Center

April 29                               Toronto, ON                                                                        Massey Hall

April 30                              Montreal, QC                             Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier / Place Des Artes

May 1                                 Brooklyn, NY                                                                     Kings Theatre

May 2                                 Brooklyn, NY                                                                     Kings Theatre

May 4                                  Boston, MA                      Citi Performing Arts Center – Wang Theatre

May 5                             Washington, D.C.                                                   DAR Constitution Hall

May 6                                Richmond, VA                                                                     Altria Theater

May 7                                  Durham, NC                                         Durham Performing Arts Center

May 9                              New Orleans, LA                                                               Saenger Theatre

May 10                                 Dallas, TX                                                                    Majestic Theatre

May 11                                Houston, TX                                     Jones Hall for the Performing Arts

May 12                                 Austin, TX                                                                 Bass Concert Hall

May 13                                 Austin, TX                                                                 Bass Concert Hall

June 2                                San Diego, CA                                                  Copley Symphony Hall*

June 3                              Los Angeles, CA                                            Dorothy Chandler Pavilion*

June 4                              Los Angeles, CA                                            Dorothy Chandler Pavilion*

June 5                                  Oakland, CA                                                                      Fox Theater*

June 6                                  Oakland, CA                                                                      Fox Theater*

June 8                                 Portland, OR                                          Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall*

June 9                                Vancouver, BC                                                            Orpheum Theatre*

June 10                                Seattle, WA                                                      The Paramount Theatre*

June 11                                Seattle, WA                                                      The Paramount Theatre*

July 17-18                     Eaux Claires Festival                                                              Eau Claire, WI

*with Helado Negro

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