The Greatest Gift (styled The Greatest Gift Mixtape – Outtakes, Remixes & Demos from Carrie & Lowell) is a mixtape by Sufjan Stevens consisting of outtakes and unreleased tracks from Stevens' 2015 release, Carrie & Lowell.
The mixtape received mostly positive reviews upon release.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from music critics, the album has received an average score of 71, indicating "generally favorable reviews", based on 15 reviews.
[1] Pitchfork Media gave the album a score of 7.2 out of 10, stating "Though too scattered to stand alone, the various demos and remixes culled from Carrie & Lowell add new context and dimension to Sufjan Stevens’ masterful album.
"[2] All songs written by Sufjan Stevens.