Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche [Coloured Vinyl] (LP)

The Avalanche [Coloured Vinyl]
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Initially conceived as part of a double album version of his classic album Illinois, Sufjan Stevens'€™ Avalanche instead became a companion-piece. Take The Mistress Witch or Saul Bellow, both of which could have lived on 2003'€™s 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, Asthmatic Kitty happily present the record as a coloured double-LP a mere 12 years after its release - complete with all 21 songs, including the three versions of Chicago.

- 2LP
- Coloured vinyl
Tracklist:

1. The Avalanche
2. Dear Mr. Supercomputer
3. Adlai Stevenson
4. The Vivian Girls Are Visited In the Night by Saint Dararius and his Squadron of Benevolent Butterflies
5. Chicago (Acoustic Version)
6. The Henney Buggy Band
7. Soul Bellow
8. Carlyle Lake
9. Springfield, or Bobby Got a Shadfly Caught in his Hair
10. The Mistress Witch from McClure (or, The Mind That Knows Itself)
11. Kaskadia River
12. Chicago (adult contemporary easy listening version)
13. Inaugural Pop Music for Jane 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)