Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise 2LP Def3 With a trapped-out drum kit

With a trapped-out drum kit pushing us into the future

jazzy keys

Although the term trip-hop wasn't officially coined until years after its release

"There's a quote from Ornette Coleman about how the song is the territory

"Blinded By The Light"

Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise 2LP Def3 With a trapped-out drum kitWith two states down and only 48 to go, Sufjan Stevens' ambitious musical map of the Unites States of America should be completed, if he puts out one a year, sometime around 2053. It's a daunting task, but if each subsequent record is as good as Illinois, fans who live long enough to witness the project's completion will no doubt find themselves to be scholars of both state history and its narrator's shape shifting soul. Stevens' soulful folk epics,