Album Facts
Sufjan Stevens - Michigan Vinyl LP
The geographical tone poem travels through personal anecdote & history
Price $29.00
Format 2xLP
Label Asthmatic Kitty
UPC 656605551012
Color Black
Year 2004
Condition
Album Facts
The geographical tone poem travels through personal anecdote & history
Price $29.00
Format 2xLP
Label Asthmatic Kitty
UPC 656605551012
Color Black
Year 2004
Condition
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."