I can't get over how brilliant Sufjan Stevens' Come On Feel The Illinoise album is. I was telling a new MOG friend about it, last night, and so I'm having to listen to it all over again. I'm a "jukebox" type of guy. I like a play list of randomized songs, just one per artist, just a few minutes long, yet here I am in love with a playlist of 22 songs all by one guy, and played in a particular order for over an hour. It's beautiful and amazing. I don't even know if I can adequately describe it. All I can say is that - according to what I've read - it has a high school band helping him fill out the arrangements, and it's the second in a 50-state concept-album rampage he's supposed to be embarking upon. Just go out and buy the CD and rip the whole thing to a single playlist. A few tracks can stand alone1, but it really is best as one big piece.
I do this thing where I go onto googlemaps and plan out a back-road adventure. I pop the kids into the Jeep, and we just explore little-used and remote roads in the area. The local geography can be quite beautiful. I think we'll have another adventure, today, set to the "Illinoise," album.
1 (3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 14, 15 & 19)
My Trusted MOGs
yes one of the few albums i really think deserved the massive amount of attention it got, i'm just hopping that it won't be a let down on the next album but until then we have illinoise and we can venture back to michigan which i'm trying to decide if i fully enjoy
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Funny, someone else posted recently about this album. Saw him last fall, definitely one of the highlights of last year! Looking forward to the next album, some of which has already leaked online.
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you sure the new album has leaked and not the illinoise rarities album The Avalanche?
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Ooh Max, ya got me, my bad. Sorry Moof!