Tuesday, July 05, 2005

sufjan stevens

For those of you unfamiliar with Sufjan Stevens, it is time you checked him out. (His album Greetings From Michigan made it into my 'Best Of' list last year). Come On Feel The Illinoise is his newest, release date was supposed to be today but it ran into a legal issue regarding artwork. Anyways, I obtained the record (!) and listened to it in its entirety tonight.

Sufjan's ambitious (and fairly indulgent) goal is to eventually make a record for each of the 50 states. This is only Number 2, and when I saw the song titles for this one I thought "Oh God, he's gotten full of himself". Can someone really make a beautiful song about John Wayne Gacy? He can, and he did. My advice is to pick up this record. One of the best I have heard so far this year. This guy is on a roll.

Posted by camden :: 7/05/2005 06:21:00 PM :: 0 Comments:

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