Sufjan Stevens- The Avalanche (Outtakes & Extras From The Illinois Album)

Sufjan Stevens- The Avalanche (Outtakes & Extras From The Illinois Album)

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Label: Asthmatic Kitty

Reissued 2018, Originally released 2006

These are tracks not used on the "Illinois" album; some songs were finished, others weren't, requiring substantial editing, arrangements and/or vocals. The centerpiece of course, is the title track, "The Avalanche", a song intended for the leading role on "Illinois", but eventually cut and placed as a bonus track on the vinyl release. Almost every song on "Illinois" has a counterpart on this outtakes release. "In his own modest way, STEVENS has quietly become the master of micro over six years and five albums; his ornately detailed compositions hold a magnifying glass to the dusty ephemera in his curious scope - and, intermittently, the center creases of his US atlas"

Track listing:

  1. The Avalanche
  2. Dear Mr. Supercomputer
  3. Adlai Stevenson
  4. The Vivian Girls Are Visited In The Night By Saint Dargarius And His Squadron Of Benevolent Butterflies
  5. Chicago (Acoustic Version)
  6. The Henney Buggy Band
  7. Saul Bellow
  8. Carlyle Lake
  9. Springfield, Or Bobby Got A Shadfly Caught In His Hair
  10. The Mistress Witch From McClure (Or, The Mind That Knows Itself)
  11. Kaskaskia River
  12. Chicago (Adult Contemporary Easy Listening Version)
  13. Inaugural Pop Music For Jayne Margaret Byrne
  14. No Man’s Land
  15. The Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake
  16. The Pick-Up
  17. The Perpetual Self, Or “What Would Saul Alinsky Do?”
  18. For Clyde Tombaugh
  19. Chicago (Multiple Personality Disorder Version)
  20. Pittsfield
  21. The Undivided Self (For Eppie And Popo)