SUFJAN STEVENS – ILLINOIS (SUFJAN STEVENS PRESENTS COME ON FEEL THE ILLINOISE) – 2-LP – VINYL LP

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 anthemic tone poem to The Prairie State

• 1Concerning the Ufo Sighting Near Highland, Illinois
• 2Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish An Entire Civilization and
• 3Come on! Feel the Illinoise!: Pt. 1: The World’s Columbian Exposition
• 4John Wayne Gacy, JR
• 5Jacksonville
• 6Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, But for Very Good
• 7Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother!
• 8One Last “Whoo-Hoo!” for the Pullman
• 9Chicago
• 10Casimir Pulaski Day
• 11To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have An Idea
• 12Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
• 13Prairie Fire That Wanders About
• 14Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens
• 15Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!
• 16They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from
• 17Let’s Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don’t Think They Heard It
• 18In This Temple As in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth
• 19Seer’s Tower
• 20Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders: Pt. 1: The Great Frontier/Pt
• 21Riffs and Variations on a Single Note for Jelly Roll, Earl Hines
• 22Out of Egypt, Into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the