The Avalanche: Outtakes & Extras from the Illinois Album

Artista: Stevens, Sufjan

Formato: COMPACT DISCS

Gravadora/Label: ASTK

Catalogo: 22

Faixas: 1.1 The Avalanche
1.2 Dear Mr. Supercomputer
1.3 Adlai Stevenson
1.4 The Vivian Girls Are Visited in the Night By Saint Dararius and His Squadron of Benevolent Butterflies
1.5 Chicago (Acoustic Version)
1.6 The Henney Buggy Band
1.7 Soul Bellow
1.8 Carlyle Lake
1.9 Springfield, or Bobby Got a Shadfly Caught in His Hair
1.10 The Mistress Witch from McClure (Or, the Mind That Knows Itself)
1.11 Kaskadia River
1.12 Chicago (Adult Contemporary Easy Listening Version)
1.13 Inaugural Pop Music for Jane Margaret Byrne
1.14 No Man’s Land
1.15 The Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake
1.16 The Pick-Up
1.17 The Perpetual Self, or “What Would Saul Alinsky Do?”
1.18 For Clyde Tombaugh
1.19 Chicago (Multiple Personality Disorder Version)
1.20 Pittsfield
1.21 The Undivided Self (For Eppie and Popo)

These are tracks not used on the ILLINOIS album some songs were finished, others weren’t requiring substantial editing, arrangements, and/or vocals. The centerpiece of course, is the titled track. The track “Avalanche”, a song intended for the leading role on ILLINOIS but eventually cut and placed as a bonus track on the vinyl release. Almost ever song on ILLINOIS has a counterpart on this outtakes release. “In his own modest way, Stevens has quietly become the master of micro over six years and five albums; his ornately detailed compositions hold a magnifying glass to the dusty ephemera in his curious scope – and, intermittently, the center creases of his US atlas – Entertainment weekly”