Sufjan Stevens – Greetings From Michigan – 2 LP set

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Artist:Sufjan Stevens|Label:Asthmatic Kitty |Format: 2xLP |Genre:Rock | LP condition: Mint | Jacket condition: Sealed

Sufjan Stevens
Greetings From Michigan – The Great Lake State
Asthmatic Kitty 7 – 2 LP set

Composed as a geographical tone poem, MICHIGAN follows a metaphysical expedition through the idiosyncrasies of middle America. Drawing from personal anecdote, regional history, and state heritage, Stevens mixes social and political grievances with songs about snowmobiles, Henry Ford, the Detroit race riots, and love. MICHIGAN’s songs resonate with a range of sources-Vince Guaraldi, Terry Riley, and Nick Drake as accompanied by Stereolab and The Sea & Cake-in executing Stevens’ peculiar palette that is simultaneously rock and blue-grass, jazz and pop, a style The Village Voice appraises as “Arthur Lee meets the Book of Psalms.”

Including
Flint (for the unemployed and Underpaid)
All Good Naysayers, Speak Up! or Forever Hold Your Peace!
For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti
Say Yes! to Michigan!
The Upper Peninsula
Holland
Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!)
Romulus
Alanson, Crooked River
Sleeping Bear, Sault Saint Marie
They Also Mourn Who Do Not Wear Black (for the homeless in Muskegan)
Oh God, Where Are You Now? (In Pickeral Lake? Pigeon? Marquette? Machinaw?)
Redford (For Yin-Yia a& Pappuou)
Vitro’s Ordination Song
Side 4 (Bonus Tracks)
Marching Band
Pickerel Lake
Niagara Falls
Presidents & Magistrates
Wolverine

SEALED NEW re-issue 2 ALBUM set w/ fancy Gatefold jacket