{"product_id":"sufjan-stevens-illinois-cd","title":"Sufjan Stevens - Illinois CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConcerning the Ufo Sighting Near Highland Illinois\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Black Hawk War or How to Demolish An Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning or We Apologize for the Inconvenience But You're Gonna Have to Leave Now or 'I Have Fought the Big Knives and Will Continue to Fight\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCome on! Feel the Illinoise!: Part I: The World's Columbian Exposition\/Part II: Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJohn Wayne Gacy JR\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJacksonville\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Short Reprise for Mary Todd Who Went Insane But for Very Good Reasons\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDecatur or Round of Applause for Your Stepmother!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne Last 'Whoo-Hoo!' for the Pullman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChicago\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCasimir Pulaski Day\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTo the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region I Have An Idea Concerning Your Predicament\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrairie Fire That Wanders About\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens Has An Existential Crisis in the Great Godfrey Maze\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThey Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLet's Hear That String Part Again Because I Don't Think They Heard It All the Way Out in Bushnell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn This Temple As in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Seer's Tower\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Tallest Man the Broadest Shoulders: Part I: The Great Frontier\/Part II: Come to Me Only with Playthings Now\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRiffs and Variations on a Single Note for Jelly Roll Earl Hines Louis Armstrong Baby Dodds and the King of Swing to Name a Few\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOut of Egypt Into the Great Laugh of Mankind and I Shake the Dirt from My Sandals As I Run\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46920898019585,"sku":"656605892627","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/9063\/4497\/files\/741227.jpg?v=1763173022","url":"https:\/\/factoryrecords.com\/products\/sufjan-stevens-illinois-cd","provider":"Factory Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}