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pitchfork.com - 11/5/2009
Sufjan Stevens Calls the 50 States Album Project "Such a Joke"
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Photo by Denny Renshaw It has now been more than four years since Sufjan Stevens released Illinois , the second album in his proposed 50 States project. Sufjan had claimed that he was going to release an album in honor of every one of our United States. But at this rate, unless he picked up ...
Sufjan Stevens Calls 50 States Project "Such a Joke"
pastemagazine.com - 11/4/2009
Sufjan Stevens Calls 50 States Project "Such a Joke"
— pastemagazine.com — At the time, it seemed impossibly ambitious: Write an album for all 50 states, each capturing both... the obvious glories and flaws, but also the hidden idiosyncrasies of its chosen bit of America. Sufjan Stevens’ first attempt was a gorgeously lush, ... Sufjan Stevens Calls 50 States Project "Such a ...
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pastemagazine.com - 11/3/2009
Sufjan Stevens: On the Road to Find Out
— pastemagazine.com — On Nov. 2, 2009, Paste magazine released its list of The 50 Best Albums of the Decade,... and topping that list was Illinois, the 2005 masterpiece from Sufjan Stevens. Paste’s Kate Kiefer talked to the Illinoisemaker about the album, his 50 States ... Sufjan Stevens: On the Road to Find Out

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Sufjan Stevens: 50 States Project a “joke”
consequenceofsound.net - 11/4/2009
Sufjan Stevens: 50 States Project a “joke”
— consequenceofsound.net — Well, so much for that. Sufjan Stevens: 50 States Project a “joke”

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Sufjan Stevens: Sufjan Stevens Abandons 50-State-Albums Concept
Prefix — ... Maybe Stevens will release everything online like Billy Corgan plans to do, via the Smashing Pumpkins 44-song album Teargarden by Kaleidyscope ... unless that was a joke, too. [Pitchfork]   ...

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