#3 Seller of 2005! Like the self-proclaimed "Spiderman" who climbed Chicago's Sears Tower with no harness, Sufjan Stevens scales dusty prairies, steel factories, and two hundred years of history in the second installment of his 50 State Project, ILLINOIS, a 22-track anthematic tone poem to The Prairie State. Stevens weaves variegated musical styles (jazz, funk, pop, folk, and Rodgers and Hammerstein-like flourishes) and the textures of 25 instruments into a tapestry of persons and places famous, infamous, ...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Like the self-proclaimed "Spiderman" who climbed Chicago's Sears Tower with no harness, Sufjan Stevens scales dusty prairies, steel factories, and two hundred years of history in the second installment of his 50 State Project, Illinois, a 22-track anthematic tone poem to The Prairie State. Stevens weaves variegated musical styles (jazz, funk, pop, folk, and Rodgers and Hammerstein-like flourishes) and the textures of 25 instruments into a tapestry of persons and places famous, infamous, icon...   [ read more ]

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Asthmatic Kitty Records and Sounds Familyre are proud to launch THE 50 STATES by Sufjan Stevens, a cumulative recording project unparalleled in its panoramic enterprise: a record for each state. Stevens inaugurates the event with a collection of songs for his birth-state: "Michigan: The Great Lake State." Composed as a geographical tone poem, "Michigan" follows a metaphysical expedition through the idiosyncrasies of middle America. Drawing from personal anecdote, regional history, and state heritage, Steve...   [ read more ]

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