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SUFJAN STEVENS THE AVALANCHE LIMITED EDITION COLOURED Vinyl LP NEW/SEALED
Catalog # : AKR022LP-C1   Distributor: PIAS
Released in 2006 as a follow-up to Sufjan Stevens’ 2005 album ‘Illinois’, Asthmatic Kitty Records finally release ‘Avalanche’ on vinyl. 
Initially conceived as part of a double album version of ‘Illinois’, ‘Avalanche’ instead became a ‘companion’ to ‘Illinois’. Take ‘The Mistress Witch’ or ‘Saul Bellow’, both of which could have lived on the 2003 ‘Michigan’ as much as on ‘Illinois’. One can hear Sufjan’s 2004 ‘Enjoy Your Rabbit’ in ‘The Undivided Self’. And the band jam on ‘Springfield’ looks forward to 2010’s ‘All Delighted People’. Then there’s ‘Pittsfield’ which, at least lyrically, foreshadows the more personal themes of 2015’s ‘Carrie & Lowell’. 
All that to say, a vinyl release of Avalanche is long overdue. With gratitude, Asthmatic Kitty happily present ‘Avalanche’ as a 2xLP a mere twelve years after its release, complete with all 21 songs from the original release, including the three versions of ‘Chicago’.
Deluxe coloured vinyl edition.
TRACKLISTING The Avalanche Dear Mr. Supercomputer Adlai Stevenson The Vivian Girls Are Visited in the Night by Saint Dargarius and His Squadron of Benevolent Butterflies Chicago (Acoustic Version) The Henney Buggy Band Saul Bellow Carlyle Lake Springfield, or Bobby Got a Shadfly Caught in His Hair The Mistress Witch from McClure (or, The Mind That Knows Itself) Kaskaskia River Chicago (Adult Contemporary Easy Listening Version) Inaugural Pop Music for Jane Margaret Byrne No Man's Land The Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake The Pick-Up The Perpetual Self, or 'What Would Saul Alinsky Do?' For Clyde Tombaugh Chicago (Multiple Personality Disorder Version) Pittsfield The Undivided Self (For Eppie and Popo)