The Avalanche

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The Avalanche

The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras from the Illinois Album is comprised of all the other recordings from sessions in his Illinois album. iTunes has released it and it's available in the Asthmatic Kitty website.

The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras from the Illinois Album is a/an Folk / Indie Rock album by Sufjan Stevens released in July 7, 2006 under Asthmatic Kitty Records.

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About

The cover features Stevens as a cartoon character in a cape held by strings, resembling more of a falling Superman. The album was supposed to be included in Illinois as a double record, but the idea never materialized. Stevens began to finish 21 of the previously abandoned songs that will be included in The Avalanche.

The album debuted in the Billboard Top 200, ranking "#71 since it's release. The track No Man's Land was featured in the closing credits of the 2006 film, Little Miss Sunshine.

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Tracks

Track	Title	Duration
1	The Avalanche	3:14
2	Dear Mr. Supercomputer	4:20
3	Adlai Stevenson	2:34
4	The Vivian Girls Are Visited in the Night by Saint Dargarius and His Squadron of Benevolent Butterflies	1:49
5	Chicago (acoustic version)	4:40
6	The Henney Buggy Band	3:16
7	Saul Bellow	2:53
8	Carlyle Lake	3:15
9	Springfield, or Bobby Got a Shadfly Caught in His Hair	4:17
10	The Mistress Witch From McClure (Or, the Mind That Knows Itself)	3:24
11	Kaskaskia River	2:15
12	Chicago (Adult Contemporary Easy Listening version)	6:06
13	Inaugural Pop Music for Jane Margaret Byrne	1:25
14	No Man's Land	4:45
15	The Palm Sunday Tornado Hits Crystal Lake	1:38
16	The Pick-up	3:23
17	The Perpetual Self, or "What Would Saul Alinsky Do?"	2:24
18	For Clyde Tombaugh	3:43
19	Chicago (Multiple Personality Disorder version)	4:35
20	Pittsfield	6:51
21	The Undivided Self (For Eppie and Popo)	4:58