Name: Illinoise
Brand: Sufjan Stevens

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

akr014lp

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Colour

black

Colour details

Discogs ID

[r11076713]

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Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2014-05-27

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0656605892610

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Total Cap

2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

akr014cd

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2007-03-14

0656605892627

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Sufjan Stevens

Genre GB

Singer Songwriter

Label GB

Asthmatic Kitty

Essential

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 instalment of his 50 state project, Illinoise, a 22-track athematic tone poem to the prairie state.

An engrossing musical road trip, Illinoise 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, UFO's, Superman, the goat that cursed the cubs, and Decatur's famous chicken-mobile.

Sufjan weaves variegated musical styles (jazz, funk, pop, folk, and Rodgers &amp; 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, Illinoise ushers in trumpets on parade, string quartets, female choruses and ambient piano scales arranged around Stevens' emerging falsetto.

Illinoise

Music GB