Sufjan Stevens- The
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 titled track. The track "Avalanche", a song intended for the leading role on ILLINOIS but eventually cut and placed as a bonus track on the vinyl release. Almost ever 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 - Entertainment weekly"
Tracklist:
- Avalanche, The
- Dear Mr. Supercomputer
- Adlai Stevenson
- Vivian Girls Are Visited in the Night by Saint Dargarius and His
- Chicago
- Henney Buggy Band, The
- Saul Bellow
- Carlyle Lake
- Springfield, Or Bobby Got a Shadfly Caught in His Hair
- Mistress Witch from McClure, The (Or, The Mind That Knows Itself
- Kaskaskia River
- Chicago - (Adult Contemporary)
- Inaugural Pop Music for Jane Margaret Byrne
- No Man's Land
- Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake, The
- Pick-Up, The
- Perpetual Self, Or "What Would Saul Alinsky Do?", The
- For Clyde Tombaugh
- Chicago - (Multiple Personality Disorder)
- Pittsfield
- Undivided Self, The (For Eppie and Popo)
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 titled track. The track "Avalanche", a song intended for the leading role on ILLINOIS but eventually cut and placed as a bonus track on the vinyl release. Almost ever 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 - Entertainment weekly"
Tracklist:
- Avalanche, The
- Dear Mr. Supercomputer
- Adlai Stevenson
- Vivian Girls Are Visited in the Night by Saint Dargarius and His
- Chicago
- Henney Buggy Band, The
- Saul Bellow
- Carlyle Lake
- Springfield, Or Bobby Got a Shadfly Caught in His Hair
- Mistress Witch from McClure, The (Or, The Mind That Knows Itself
- Kaskaskia River
- Chicago - (Adult Contemporary)
- Inaugural Pop Music for Jane Margaret Byrne
- No Man's Land
- Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake, The
- Pick-Up, The
- Perpetual Self, Or "What Would Saul Alinsky Do?", The
- For Clyde Tombaugh
- Chicago - (Multiple Personality Disorder)
- Pittsfield
- Undivided Self, The (For Eppie and Popo)