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Record Details

Artist: Sufjan Stevens
Title: Illinois
Format: CDReissue
Label: Rough Trade
Cat No: RTRADCD250
Released: 2005
Country:
Genres: Folk RockIndie PopTheme
Status Have
Added To List 29th July 2025
Disc 1 | CD
Excellent
No Notes 
A Matrix:
deluxe RTRADCD250 04  
B Matrix:
deluxe RTRADCD250 01  

Additional Information

Comments Although the official album title is "Illinois", the cover art reads "Sufjan Stevens invites you to: Come on feel the ILLINOISE"

℗ 2005 The copyright in these sound recordings is owned by Asthmatic Kitty Records
Under license to Rough Trade Records Ltd. in Europe
© 2005 Rough Trade Records Ltd.
© 2005 New Jerusalem Music / ASCAP
Made in the E.U. (back cover)
Made in the UK (matrix)

All songs recorded/engineered/produced by Sufjan Stevens (Fall 2004 - Winter 2005)
James McAlister had a lot to do with the way the drums sound because he set up the microphones
All arrangements (painstakingly composed) by Sufjan Stevens
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music, Tenafly, NJ

• Most of the songs were recorded at The Buddy Project (Astoria, Queens) with gratefulness to Kieran Kelly
• Many of the quiet parts were recorded at Sufjan's apartment in Brooklyn
• The piano was recorded in the dead of night at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
• The string quartet was recorded at Marla's apartment in Washington Heights
• Matt Morgan's vocals were recorded in Red Hook, Brooklyn
• The electric organ was recorded at the New Jerusalem Recreational Room in Clarksboro, NJ
• The vibraphone was recorded at Carroll Music Studios, New York City

Pressing information:
• This is the 3rd EU issue of 2005
• Resolves the misprint artwork of the 2nd issue and the copyright-protected Superman artwork of the 1st issue
• Some disks for this version came from the same glass master (IFPI L136) as the 2nd issue, while some came from the glass master of the 1st issue (IFPI L135)
• Some disks for this version were pressed on the same machine (IFPI 0469) as the 1st issue

Previous versions:
• The 2nd EU issue with misprint artwork is [r=6118702]
• The original EU issue with the Superman artwork is [r=555347]
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