Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan The Great Lake State (2003) [FLAC] [VINYL] [24bit-96KHz]

Artist: Sufjan Stevens
Release: Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lake State
Discogs: 587145
Released: 2003
Label: Asthmatic Kitty Records
Catalog#: AKR007
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Style: Rock, Folk Rock, Acoustic

Tracklisting:

A1. Flint (For The Unemployed And Underpaid)
A2. All Good Naysayers, Speak Up! Or Forever Hold Your Peace!
A3. For The Widows Of Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti
A4. Say Yes! To M!ch!gan!
A5. The Upper Peninsula
B1. Tahquamenon Falls
B2. Holland
B3. Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!)
B4. Romulus
B5. Alanson, Crooked River
C1. Sleeping Bear, Sault Saint Marie
C2. They Also Mourn Who Do Not Wear Black (For The Homeless In Muskegon)
C3. Oh God, Where Are You Now? ( In Pickeral Lake? Pigeon? Marquette? Mackinaw?)
C4. Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou)
C5. Vito's Ordination Song
D1. Marching Band
D2. Pickerel Lake
D3. Niagara Falls
D4. Presidents & Magistrates
D5. Wolverine

Album Review - allmusic
Sufjan Stevens's third album is a charming homage to his home state of Michigan. Filled with heartbreak, the album cryptically addresses Stevens' frustration with the notorious job market in the city of Flint in a lovely ballad that opens the record, and documents the depressing struggle the city of Detroit has fought to once again attain the elegance it had prior to the riots in the late '60s; however, it also touches on a brighter side, as in the cascading "Say Yes! to M!ch!gan!" Its title is a reference to the campaign adopted by the state in the 1980s and serves as the centerpiece as well as Stevens' attachment and amour for the state he is from. Musically, Stevens often plays his Jim O'Rourke and Stereolab cards, riffing along with complex polyphony in building loops and dynamics, but he also frequently imports lightly strummed guitars and stark banjo picking to break up the album and give it a rustic northern folk aesthetic. Stevens comfortably handles nearly every instrument on the album -- an impressive task that includes various keyboards, woodwinds, guitars, and percussions -- but also enlisted the help of Megan, Elin, and Daniel Smith from the Danielson Famile to help out with vocal duties, and the outcome is a haunting and hypnotic studio opus certainly worth getting lost in.

Thanks to the original pirate:

• Rega P5 turntable (glass platter, RB700 tonearm)
• Ortofon Kontrapunkt A, low output MC cart (aligned with the Rega Stevenson protractor)
• Lehmann Black Cube SE PWX preamp (set to 100 Ohm)
• Tascam US-144 soundcard
• Audacity (OS X)

Attention: The vinyl version of this album is notoriously bad. Therefor of course this rip is not top notch quality, but I did my best in removing clicks etc. I would normally not upload a torrent of this quality, but I felt the need to trump the 24 bit version already up since it's basically unlistenable. I'd advice you to DL a track or two from the V0 before getting this.

Audio info from Track 02 as a sample

General
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec
File size : 97.1 MiB
Duration : 4mn 32s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 2 985 Kbps
Album : Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State
Track name : All Good Naysayers, Speak Up! Or Forever Hold Your Peace!
Track name/Position : 2
Performer : Sufjan Stevens
Genre : Rock
Recorded date : 2003

Audio
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec
Duration : 4mn 32s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 2 985 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 96.0 KHz
Bit depth : 24 bits
Stream size : 97.1 MiB (100%)
Writing library : libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)



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