The Avalanche

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The Avalanche
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Length
21 tracks, 75:36
Release Date
10 July 2006
The little secret behind the Illinois record is that it was originally conceived as a double album, culminating in a musical collage of nearly 50 songs. But as the project began to develop into an unwieldy epic, common sense weighed in—as did the opinions of others—and the project was cut in half. But as 2005 came to a close, Sufjan returned to the old, forsaken songs on his 8-track like a grandfather remembering his youth, indulging in old journals and newspaper clippings. What he uncovered went beyond the merits of nostalgia; it was more like an ensemble of capricious friends and … read more
The little secret behind the Illinois record is that it was originally conceived as a double album, culminating in a musical collage of nearly 50 son… read more
The little secret behind the Illinois record is that it was originally conceived as a double album, culminating in a musical collage of nearly 50 songs. But as the project began to devel… read more

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Track number Play Loved Track name Artist name Buy Options Duration Listeners
1 Play track The Avalanche
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 3:14 145,264 listeners
2 Play track Dear Mr. Supercomputer
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 4:20 113,445 listeners
3 Play track Adlai Stevenson
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 2:34 103,302 listeners
4 Play track The Vivian Girls Are Visited In the Night by Saint Dargarius and his Squadron of Benevolent Butterflies
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 1:49 67,811 listeners
5 Play track Chicago (acoustic version)
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 4:40 139,989 listeners
6 Play track Henney Buggy Band
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 3:16 209,827 listeners
7 Play track Saul Bellow
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 2:53 100,979 listeners
8 Play track Carlyle Lake
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 3:15 92,894 listeners
9 Play track Springfield, or Bobby Got a Shadfly Caught in His Hair
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 4:17 88,613 listeners
10 Play track The Mistress Witch from McClure (or, The Mind That Knows Itself)
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 3:24 93,824 listeners
11 Play track Kaskaskia River
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 2:15 88,254 listeners
12 Play track Chicago (adult contemporary easy listening version)
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 6:06 92,784 listeners
13 Play track Inaugural Pop Music for Jane Margaret Byrne
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 1:25 81,615 listeners
14 Play track No Man's Land
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 4:45 95,036 listeners
15 Play track The Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake
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 1:38 80,410 listeners
16 Play track The Pick-up
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 3:23 81,667 listeners
17 Play track The Perpetual Self, or "What Would Saul Alinsky Do?"
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 2:24 60,304 listeners
18 Play track For Clyde Tombaugh
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 3:43 70,524 listeners
19 Play track Chicago (Multiple Personality Disorder version)
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 4:35 74,330 listeners
20 Play track Pittsfield
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 6:41 78,771 listeners
21 Play track The Undivided Self (for Eppie and Popo)
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 4:59 61,494 listeners

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Sufjan Stevens (Born July 1, 1975) is an American musician, , and from Petoskey, Michigan. He is known for his lyrically focused and instrumentally rich songs that often relate to faith and family. He has enjoyed wide critical success in the United States. He is considered part of the revival through , but his influences are very broad, including , the of Vince Guaraldi, and the academic minimalism of Steve Reich and Philip Glass. Though Stevens had announced plans to make an album for each of the 50 U.… read more
Sufjan Stevens (Born July 1, 1975) is an American musician, , and from Petoskey, Michigan. He is known for his lyrically focused and instrumentally rich song… read more
Sufjan Stevens (Born July 1, 1975) is an American musician, , and from Petoskey, Michigan. He is known for his lyrically focused and instrumentally rich songs that often relate to faith and family. He ha… read more

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