2005, Asthmatic Kitty Records
#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, iconic and anonymous. Invoking the muse of poet Carl Sandburg, "Illinois" ushers in trumpets on parade, string quartets, female choruses and ambient piano scales arranged around Stevens' emerging falsetto.
Tracklisting
Disc 1
| 1 | Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois |
| 2 | Black Hawk War, Or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and ... |
| 3 | Come on! Feel the Illinoise!: Pt. 1: The World's Columbian Exposition |
| 4 | John Wayne Gacy, Jr. |
| 5 | Jacksonville |
| 6 | Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, But for Very Good ... |
| 7 | Decatur, Or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother! |
| 8 | One Last "Whoo-Hoo!" for the Pullman |
| 9 | Chicago |
| 10 | Casimir Pulaski Day |
| 11 | To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea ... |
| 12 | Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts |
| 13 | Prairie Fire That Wanders About |
| 14 | Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens ... |
| 15 | Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is out to Get Us! |
| 16 | They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from |
| 17 | Let's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It |
| 18 | In This Temple as in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth |
| 19 | Seer's Tower |
| 20 | Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders: Pt. 1: The Great Frontier/Pt. ... |
| 21 | Riffs and Variations on a Single Note for Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, ... |
| 22 | Out of Egypt, Into the Great Laugh of Mankind, And I Shake the ... |
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Customer Reviews
1 reviews
Czsar FoeJust excellent! History meets art, the way Illinois found glory in 76 minutes of geniusness. Sufjan's sensibility guides us through the complexity of a entire state who represent an entire nation and most important the symbol of all humanity, because Sufjan speaks universally and touches human nerves.