Sufjan Stevens - Michigan
Double Album 2LP Black Vinyl Records, Repress
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Michigan is the third studio album by American indie folk musician Sufjan Stevens, originally released in July 2003 via Asthmatic Kitty Records.
Styled Sufjan Stevens Presents... Greetings From Michigan, The Great Lake State on the cover, Michigan is a concept album and featuring songs referencing places, events, and persons related to the U.S. state of Michigan, part of a planned series of fifty that began with the 2003 album ‘Michigan’ and that Stevens has since acknowledged was a joke.
Michigan is a charming homage to his home state of Michigan. Filled with heartbreak, the album cryptically addresses Stevens' frustration with the notorious job market in the city of Flint in a lovely ballad that opens the record, and documents the depressing struggle the city of Detroit has fought to once again attain the elegance it had prior to the riots in the late '60s
It also touches on a brighter side, as in the cascading "Say Yes! to M!ch!gan!" Its title is a reference to the campaign adopted by the state in the 1980s and serves as the centrepiece as well as Stevens' attachment and amour for the state he is from.
Musically, Stevens often riffs along with complex polyphony in building loops and dynamics, but he also frequently imports lightly strummed guitars and stark banjo picking to break up the album and give it a rustic northern folk aesthetic.
Stevens comfortably handles nearly every instrument on the album, but also enlisted the help of Megan, Elin, and Daniel Smith from the Danielson Famile to help out with vocal duties, and the outcome is a haunting and hypnotic studio opus certainly worth getting lost in.
This double album 2LP record set is a 2023 repress on black vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve, pressed in the US via Asthmatic Kitty Records.
(18375)
Tracklisting:
No. |
Track |
Time |
A1 |
Flint (For The Unemployed And Undepaid) |
3:43 |
A2 |
All Good Naysayers, Speak Up Or Forever Hold Your Peace! |
4:33 |
A3 |
For The Widows Of Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti |
3:57 |
A4 |
Say Yes! To M!ch!gan! |
2:45 |
A5 |
The Upper Peninsula |
3:23 |
B1 |
Tahqamenon Falls |
2:18 |
B2 |
Holland |
3:26 |
B3 |
Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!) |
8:20 |
B4 |
Romulus |
4:41 |
B5 |
Alanson, Crooked River |
1:18 |
C1 |
Sleeping Bear, Sault Saint Marie |
2:52 |
C2 |
They Also Mourn Who Do Not Wear Black (For The Homeless In Muskegon) |
6:21 |
C3 |
Oh God, Where Are You Now? (In Pickeral Lake? Pigeon? Marquette? Mackinaw?) |
9:23 |
C4 |
Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou) |
2:02 |
C5 |
Vito’s Ordination Song |
7:06 |
D |
Bonus Outtakes: |
|
D1 |
Marching Band |
3:41 |
D2 |
Pickerel Lake |
3:11 |
D3 |
Niagara Falls |
2:22 |
D4 |
Presidents & Magistrates |
4:16 |
D5 |
Wolverine |
2:10 |
SKU | 18375 |
Record Label | Asthmatic Kitty Records |
Label / Model # | Independent |
Catalogue Number | AKR 007 |
Country | US - United States |
Release Date (Year) | 01 January 2023 |
Original Release Date (Year) | 01 July 2003 |
Barcode # | 656605551012 |
Shipping Weight | 0.4700kg |
Shipping Width | 0.010m |
Shipping Height | 0.314m |
Shipping Length | 0.314m |
Shipping Cubic | 0.000986000m3 |
Type | New |
Format | Limited Edition Double Album 2LP Records, Black Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Reissue, Repress |
Vinyl Colour | Black |
Format | VINYL LP |
Genre | Rock & Popular |
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