{"product_id":"sufjan-stevens-illinois-lp","title":"Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise - LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2LP, Gatefold Jacket\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllinois (stylized Illinoise) is the 2005 album by Sufjan Stevens, a sweeping tone poem to the Prairie State. Across 22 tracks, Stevens weaves jazz, funk, and pop with symphonic flourishes, drawing on the state's people and places both iconic and obscure. Performed largely by Stevens himself across some 25 instruments, with a horn section, string quartet, and small choir, it remains a landmark of his catalog. Asthmatic Kitty, 2005.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eFeatures\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNumber of Discs: 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGatefold jacket\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLabel: Asthmatic Kitty Records\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eTrack Listing\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSide One:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConcerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Black Hawk War, Or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, Or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You're Going to Have to Leave Now, Or, \"I Have Fought the Big Knives and Will Continue to Fight Them Until They Are Off Our Lands!\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCome On! Feel the Illinoise! Part I: The World's Columbian Exposition \/ Part II: Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJohn Wayne Gacy, Jr.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJacksonville\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, but for Very Good Reasons\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSide Two:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDecatur, Or, Round of Applause for Your Step Mother!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne Last \"Whoo-Hoo!\" for the Pullman!!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGo! Chicago! Go! Yeah!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCasimir Pulaski Day\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTo the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea Concerning Your Predicament, and It Involves Tube Socks, a Paper Airplane, and Twenty-Two Able-Bodied Men.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSide Three:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrairie Fire That Wanders About\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens Has an Existential Crisis in the Great Godfrey Maze\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThey Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLet's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It All the Way Out in Bloomington-Normal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn This Temple as in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSide Four:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Seer's Tower\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders Part I: The Great Frontier \/ Part II: Come to Me Only with Playthings Now\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRiffs and Variations on a Single Note for Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodds, and the King of Swing, to Name a Few\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOut of Egypt, Into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the Dirt from My Sandals as I Run\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secretly Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63812392943993,"sku":"656605892610","price":9.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1004\/7219\/3401\/files\/742505.jpg?v=1782101003","url":"https:\/\/noirvinyl.com\/products\/sufjan-stevens-illinois-lp","provider":"NOIR VINYL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}