Description:	Dbl G/fold LP on Asthmatic Kitty
	Format:	Double LP (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Indie Rock
	Label:	Asthmatic Kitty
	Price:	£14.99
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Clinton on 28 November 2006.

So I'm brilliant. Have you heard? I'm years ahead of my time. Good old me eh? You probably don't remember me rabbiting on and on droning endlessly about Sufjan Stevens 'Michigan' album years and years ago. Before you could even be bothered to be born. Hang on,   I think I'm turning into Everett True. Anyway here's Sufjan's new album 'Illinoise'  - its gonna be terribly difficult to review in 5 minutes as 'Michigan' is still growing on me to this day. Lets just buy it now and ask questions later eh? For the uninitiated its complicated folky music that takes influence from Nick Drake, Philip Glass, Elliott Smith, Speed the Plough (or the Trypes!!), Sea and Cake and Danielson Famile. On first listen it sounds worryingly chirpy but lets give it some time. The song titles are superb. On Rough Trade.

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What their label says...

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. an engrossing musical road trip, illinois takes you through ghost towns, grain
mills, hospital rooms, and the city of broad shoulders, with guest appearances by a poet, a

president, a serial murderer, ufos, superman, the goat that cursed the cubs, and decatur's
famous chickenmobile. sufjan 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. album of the month july 2005. american