STEVENS,SUFJAN
ILLINOIS - LP

ASTHMATIC KITTY

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UPC: 656605892610
Label: ASTHMATIC KITTY
Format: LP
Release Date: November 22, 2005
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Since the 2003 release of his third album MICHIGAN and 2004s SEVEN SWANS, Sufjan Stevens has been recognized as on of the most talented songwriter-performers in independent music. ILLINOIS, the follow-up to MICHIGAN in his "50 States" project, again demonstrates his ability to realize a music vision through his moving songs, musicianship (he plays 25 instrums on the album), production and arrangments. While some musical and literary influences are felt and heard, Stevens' total involvement in every phase of the project results in a thoroughly unique result. On his second meditation on an American state, a 22-track anthematic tone poem for Illinois, Stevens weaves variegated musical styles and instrumental textures into a tapestry of person famous, infamous and anonymous, and places iconic, obscure and abandoned. Love, loss, faith, the unique character of place, encounters with spiritual stength in unexpected places, incomprehensible horror and celebratory odes to the rise and fall of human works are among the themes Stevens visits in his ode to the Prairie State.

TRACK LIST:

1. Concerning the UFO Sighting

2. Black Hawk War, The

3. Come On! Feel the Illinoise!

4. John Wayne Gacy, Jr.

5. Jacksonville

6. Short Reprise For Mary Todd, A

7. Decatur

8. One Last 'Woo-Hoo' For the Pullman

9. Chicago

10. Casimir Pulaski Day

11. To the Workers of the Rockford River Valley Region

12. Man of Metropolis, The

13. Prarie Fire That Wanders About

14. Conjunction of Drones, A

15. Predatory Wasp, The

16. They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!!

17. Let's Hear That String Part Again...

18. In This Temple

19. Seer's Tower, The

20. Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders, The

21. Riffs and Variations on a Single Note

22. Out of Egypt