Sufjan Stevens recently announced Carrie & Lowell, the follow-up to 2010's The Age of Adz. Steven's label Asthmatic Kitty put together an explainer that they posted on Reddit that shows how the vinyl edition was mastered and packaged.

Above is the album cover and inner sleeve. The cover is a photograph of the titular Carrie and Lowell, Stevens' mother and stepfather. The inner sleeve shows "a young Sufjan eating a banana at the breakfast table," according to Asthmatic Kitty. Below, check out a photo of the album's back cover, along with the lyric sheet. (Surely, some intrepid Stevens fan has magnified the text to 100x in order to decipher.) The label points out that the lyric sheet features the songs out of order from the way they actually appear on the album.

Carrie & Lowell is out March 30 in Europe and March 31 in North America.

Watch a trailer for the album: