Blue Bucket of Gold / Hotline Bling (Featuring Gallant)

Asthmatic Kitty Records release Carrie and Lowell Live, an audio and visual document of Sufjan's November 9, 2015 performance at North Charleston Performing Arts Center in South Carolina. This 12-inch is pressed on translucent blue vinyl.

On Side A is "Blue Bucket of Gold" and its outro, and on Side B is "Hotline Bling" featuring Gallant. Released in March 2015, Carrie and Lowell is perhaps Sufjan's bleakest album, tracing the songwriter's struggle with grief and depression following the sudden death of his mother.

To promote the album, Sufjan set out on an extensive worldwide tour, playing almost 100 concerts performing almost exclusively songs from the new record. 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.

Carrie and Lowell Live captures Sufjan at his most vulnerable and persuasive, and it features a proficient, multiple-instrumentalist crew of musicians, including Dawn Landes (vocals, guitar, guitalin, piano, synthesizer, vocoder, percussion), Casey Foubert (vocals, guitar, lap steel, bass, piano, ukulele, synthesizer), Steve Moore (vocals, synthesizer, bass synth, trombone, Casiotone, piano), and James McAlister (drums, percussion, electronics, synthesizer, piano).

The live show ends with an expansive 12-minute improvisational jam that looks (and feels) like nothing less than a born-again experience. Carrie and Lowell Live was shot and produced by We Are Films, edited by Keith Bradshaw and Deborah Johnson, mixed by Casey Foubert, and mastered by TW Walsh.

12" - Translucent Blue vinyl 12" that comes with a download for the entire 16-track concert recording.