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Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche (Outtakes & Extras From The Illinois Album) Vinyl 2LP album cover

Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche (Outtakes & Extras From The Illinois Album) Vinyl 2LP

LABEL: Asthmatic Kitty Records | FILE UNDER: Folk / Soft Rock
FOR FANS OF: Angelo De Augustine, Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes

$31.98
Released in 2006 as a follow-up to Sufjan Stevens' 2005 Illinois, Asthmatic Kitty Records is finally releasing Avalanche on vinyl on August 31st, 2018. Initially conceived as part of a double album version of Illinois, Avalanche instead became a "companion" (a polite word for "b-sides") to Illinois. Since its release, fans have had mixed reactions. "3 versions of Chicago?!?! Enough already," wrote "biografiend" on Sputnik. But "cravenmonket," who gave the album 4.5 stars on rateyourmusic, suggests that we all "stop thinking of The Avalanche as more Illinois. It actually owes more to Michigan." Cravenmonket may be right. Take "The Mistress Witch" or "Saul Bellow," both of which could have lived on the 2003 Michigan as much as on Illinois. One can hear Sufjan's 2004 Enjoy Your Rabbit in "The Undivided Self." And the band jam on "Springfield" looks forward to 2010's All Delighted People. Then there's "Pittsfield," which, at least lyrically, foreshadows the more personal themes of 2015's Carrie & Lowell. All that to say, a vinyl release of Avalanche is long overdue. With gratitude, we happily present Avalanche as a 2xLP a mere twelve years after its release, complete with all 21 songs from the original release, including the three versions of "Chicago" (you're welcome, biografiend).
PRODUCT DETAILS

  • FORMAT: 2xLP
  • ARTIST: Sufjan Stevens
  • TITLE: The Avalanche (Outtakes & Extras From The Illinois Album)
  • LABEL: Asthmatic Kitty Records
  • CATALOG NUMBER: AKR022
  • GENRE: Folk / Soft Rock
  • SUB-GENRES: Folk Rock, Acoustic
  • RELEASE YEAR: 2018
  • UPC: 656605366081
  • CONDITION: New
TRACKLIST

01. The Avalanche
02. Dear Mr. Supercomputer
03. Adlai Stevenson
04. The Vivian Girls Are Visited In The Night By Saint Dargarius And His Squadron Of Benevolent Butterflies
05. Chicago (Acoustic Version)
06. The Henney Buggy Band
07. Saul Bellow
08. Carlyle Lake
09. 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)

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UPC: 656605366081

SKU: FSLP-1644

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