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Like the self-proclaimed "Spiderman" who climbed Chicago's Sears Tower with no harness, Sufjan Stevens scales dusty prairies, steel factories, and two hundred years of history in the second installment of his 50 State Project, "ILLINOIS", a 22-track anthemic tone poem to The Prairie State. Album Tracks 1. Concerning the Ufo Sighting Near Highland, Illinois 2. Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish An Entire Civilization and 3. Come on! Feel the Illinoise! Pt. 1 The World's Columbian Exposition 4. John Wayne Gacy, JR 5. Jacksonville 6. Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, But for Very Good 7. Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother! 8. One Last "Whoo-Hoo!" for the Pullman 9. Chicago 10. Casimir Pulaski Day 11. To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have An Idea 12. Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts 13. Prairie Fire That Wanders About 14. Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens 15. Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us! 16. They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from 17. Let's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It 18. In This Temple As in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth 19. Seer's Tower 20. Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders Pt. 1 The Great Frontier/Pt 21. Riffs and Variations on a Single Note for Jelly Roll, Earl Hines 22. Out of Egypt, Into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the

U.S. double vinyl LP pressing. 2010 from the critically acclaimed singer/songwriter. The Age of Adz (pronounced Odds) is Sufjan Stevens' first full-length collection of original songs since 2005's conceptual pop opus Illinois. While the sounds on this record are distinctly "artificial" (drums machines and analog synths reign supreme), the proclamations of the songs are unabashedly visceral, sung loudly, with a backdrop of insistent orchestration. The result is an album that is perhaps more vibrant, primary and explicit than anything Sufjan has done before, incorporating themes that are neither historical nor civic, but rather personal and primal (if even a little juvenile). Album Tracks 1. Futile Devices 2. Too Much 3. Age of Adz 4. I Walked 5. Now That I'm Older 6. Get Real Get Right 7. Bad Communication 8. Vesuvius 9. All for Myself 10. I Want to Be Well 11. Impossible Soul