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"The literary indie-folk poet only got two discs into his threatened project of recording an album about every state in the union &amp;ndash; but his ode to the Land of Lincoln is an American classic nonetheless. On songs like \"Out of Egypt\" and \"Chicago,\" Stevens set wax-winged melodies atop delicately droning avant-classical compositions deeply indebted to Steven Reich and Philip Glass, and he balanced those sweeping moments with simple, acoustic benedictions &amp;ndash; from \"Decatur,\" a waltz-time cheer for our greatest president, to \"Casimir Polaski Day,\" a meditation on religious faith in the darkest of hours that might serve for non-believers as a metaphor for keeping your head up in the decade of 9/11 and George W. Bush.\r\nRelated: &amp;bull; Sufjan Stevens Unveils Ode to NYC Highway With Hula-Hoops, Orchestra \r\n&amp;bull; Sufjan Stevens Covers R.E.M.'s 'The One I Love'"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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