Sufjan Stevens: The Avalanche 2LP Vinyl

Sufjan Stevens: The Avalanche (2LP) [ASTHMATIC KITTY]

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Sufjan Stevens' 2006 collection of outtakes and extras from the Illinois album as a 2LP set, with "The Avalanche" and three new takes on "Chicago."

Why you'll love it

This 2LP set comes with a printed insert and a download coupon. It gathers 21 songs from the Illinois sessions, including "No Man's Land," heard over the closing credits of Little Miss Sunshine.

This edition

2LP set
Printed insert
Download card included

About the album

Illinois was meant to be a double album of around 50 songs before Sufjan Stevens trimmed it down. When it became the record of the year for a great many people, he went back to his digital 8-track in late 2005 and finished 21 of the songs he'd set aside. The cover owns up cheerfully, declaring the contents shamelessly compiled by Sufjan Stevens.

He recorded most of it himself in Astoria, Queens, and at home in Brooklyn, with piano taped in a Carroll Gardens church. The title track is a bright banjo-and-horns sketch, "Dear Mr. Supercomputer" bounces through time signatures, and "Adlai Stevenson" and "Saul Bellow" add more Illinois portraits. "Chicago" turns up three more times, as an acoustic version, an adult contemporary easy listening version and a multiple personality disorder version, and "The Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake" is as vivid as its title.

Uncut put it at No. 9 on its best of 2006 list. The licence plate on the cover reads AKR 022, the album's catalogue number, which is a level of filing discipline our back room has never once managed.

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Tracklist

Side A
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

Side B
1. Saul Bellow
2. Carlyle Lake
3. Springfield, Or Bobby Got A Shadfly Caught In His Hair
4. The Mistress Witch From McClure (Or, The Mind That Knows Itself)
5. Kaskaskia River

Side C
1. Chicago (Adult Contemporary Easy Listening Version)
2. Inaugural Pop Music For Jayne Margaret Byrne
3. No Man’s Land
4. The Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake
5. The Pick-Up

Side D
1. The Perpetual Self, Or “What Would Saul Alinsky Do?”
2. For Clyde Tombaugh
3. Chicago (Multiple Personality Disorder Version)
4. Pittsfield
5. The Undivided Self (For Eppie And Popo)