Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
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Artist: Sufjan StevensEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-07-05
Music Label: Asthmatic Kitty
Soundtracks:
- Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois
- Black Hawk War, Or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and ...
- Come on! Feel the Illinoise!: Pt. 1: The World's Columbian Exposition
- John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
- Jacksonville
- Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, But for Very Good ...
- Decatur, Or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother!
- One Last "Whoo-Hoo!" for the Pullman
- Chicago
- Casimir Pulaski Day
- To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea ...
- Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts
- Prairie Fire That Wanders About
- Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens ...
- Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is out to Get Us!
- They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from
- Let's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It
- In This Temple as in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth
- Seer's Tower
- Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders: Pt. 1: The Great Frontier/Pt. ...
- Riffs and Variations on a Single Note for Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, ...
- Out of Egypt, Into the Great Laugh of Mankind, And I Shake the ...
Music reviews of Illinois
Music Review: Sufjan Steven's masterpiece!
Rating: 5 Stars
I'm going to keep this review pretty short and sweet. Many others have already said similar things here, but Sufjan Steven's Come on feel the Illinoise is quite simply one of the greatest music albums of the past decade. He's a brilliant songwriter, but also has such a great ear for interesting and original music compositions. Many of the tracks on the album end up with a very epic feel to them, but not in an overproduced manner. Sufjan poured his heart into creating this album and it shows.
Major highlights include: "Come on Feel the Illinoise!", "Chicago", "Decatur, or, Round of Applause...", "The Predatory Wasps...", "John Wayne Gacy, Jr.", "Jacksonville", "Casimir Pulaski Day", "They are Night Zombies!!...", "The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders...". 22 tracks in total. What are you waiting for, hit "add to cart" already.
Description of Illinois
Subtitled Come On Feel The..., Sufjan Stevens & The Michigan Militia have moved to Illinois (dubbing themselves the Illinoisemakers) but this new album is the same Sufjan we know and love. Fingerpicked ballads of delicate twang, tasteful orchestration, and titles that are murder on the ID3 tags. While this album unmistakably owes its inspiration to the sound of Michigan, Sufjan has managed to take his orchestra-like folk template and expand on it, tapping into unexpected genres and bringing unexpected instruments like strings and woodwinds to the forefront, all while relating tales of the state's history as well as possibly fictional stories about its residents. To sweeten the deal, Sufjan's vocals have also improved some: he's managed to make his thin, meek vocal presence a little more noticeable, and while that doesn't stop him from using members of the quirky Danielson Famile as his own personal choir, it's nice to hear him sound more assured on some of this album's mellower moments. Rough Trade. 2005.Illinois sounds like The Sea and Cake collaborating with the high-school band from a Wes Anderson film on banjo-driven, pulsing meditations on Vince Guaraldi's music for Peanuts. Sufjan Stevens, the singer-songwriter behind the endeavor, is an earnest and whimsical young man who aims to record an album based on every state in the union, though this is just his second attempt since 2003's Michigan. Lavish praise has been heaped upon this precocious twenty-something, who weaves personal recollections, historical narratives, and strange facts together to create lush portraits of Midwestern life. It's not maudlin stuff, and the atypical instrumentation (strings, choirs, trumpets, vibes) is beyond gimmick. Halfway through "John Wayne Gacy, Jr.," when Stevens has you feeling true empathy for a serial killer, it's clear that he really is an artist of the highest order. These are weird and lovely middlebrow ditties; we eagerly await the Broadway adaptation. --Mike McGonigal
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