"The Greatest Gift" mixtape is a collection of outtakes, remixes and demos from Sufjan Stevens' complex and devastating "Carrie & Lowell", which he released more than two years ago after the death of his troubled mother. The "Greatest Gift" video accompanies the mixtape's official release today and was directed by Sufjan Stevens himself, using stop motion and cut-outs from 'The Watchtower', clashing with vintage magazine imagery. The music is gorgeous and heartbreaking, the visuals show a childlike attempt at matching the 'real' world and the past to the big questions and spiritual or religious answers that somehow are (or should be) part of the same reality.