Komplett/alternativ tittel: Sufjan Stevens Invites You To: Come On Feel The Illinoise. Det er få, om noen, innenfor amerikansk indierock som sikter så eksplisitt mot skjønnhet, vakre melodier med ditto arrangementer, som Sufjan Stevens. Hans folky kammerpop utvikler seg for hver plate. Denne, hans femte, er også hans beste til nå. Han velger lyriske temaer som om han skulle være en iherdig motstander av konseptet konseptplater, og det til tross for at hevder å lage slike selv. For selv om Illinois, staten Illinois, hele tiden fungerer som bakteppe, er det musikken som er limet. Tekstene har ingen åpenbar rød tråd; de handler både om massemordere, ufoer, zombier, store amerikanske presidenter og store amerikanske musikere, samt mer intime, private ting, som sykdom, død og ensomhet. Men uansett hva han synger om, gjør Sufjan det med en veldig innlevelse og sensibilitet.TracklistConcerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois The 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!" Come On! Feel The Illinoise! Part I: The World's Columbian Exposition Part II: Carl Sandburg Visits Me In A Dream John Wayne Gacy, Jr. Jacksonville A Short Reprise For Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, But For Very Good Reasons Decatur, Or, Round Of Applause For Your Stepmother! One Last "Whoo-Hoo!" For The Pullman Go! Chicago! Go! Yeah! Casimir Pulaski Day To 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 The Man Of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts Prairie Fire That Wanders About A Conjunction Of Drones Simulating The Way In Which Sufjan Stevens Has An Existential Crisis In The Great Godfrey Maze The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us! They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From The Dead!! Ahhhh! Let's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It All The Way Out In Bloomington-Normal In This Temple As In The Hearts Of Man For Whom He Saved The Earth The Seer's Tower The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders Part I: The Great Frontier Part II: Come To Me Only With Playthings Now Riffs And Variations On A Single Note For Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodds, And The King Of Swing, To Name A Few Out Of Egypt, Into The Great Laugh Of Mankind, And I Shake The Dirt From My Sandals As I Run The Avalanche
| Utgitt | 2005 |
| Format | CD |
| Sjanger | Rock |
