The Avalanche

Tracklist

• 1
  The Avalanche
  3:14
  2.9 ★
• 2
  Dear Mr. Supercomputer
  4:20
• 3
  Adlai Stevenson
  2:34
  3.5 ★
• 4
  The Vivian Girls Are Visited in the Night by Saint Dargarius and His Squadron of Benevolent Butterflies
  1:49
  2.0 ★
• 5
  Chicago
  4:40
• 6
  The Henney Buggy Band
  3:16
  5.0 ★
• 7
  Saul Bellow
  2:53
• 8
  Carlyle Lake
  3:15
• 9
  Springfield, or Bobby Got a Shadfly Caught in His Hair
  4:17
  3.4 ★
• 10
  The Mistress Witch From McClure (or, The Mind That Knows Itself)
  3:24
  3.4 ★
• 11
  Kaskaskia River
  2:15
• 12
  Chicago (adult contemporary easy listening version)
  6:06
  3.6 ★
• 13
  Inaugural Pop Music for Jane Margaret Byrne
  1:25
• 14
  No Man’s Land
  4:45
  3.4 ★
• 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
  2.0 ★
• 18
  For Clyde Tombaugh
  3:43
• 19
  Chicago (Multiple Personality Disorder version)
  4:35
• 20
  Pittsfield
  6:51
  3.4 ★
• 21
  The Undivided Self (For Eppie and Popo)
  4:59

More by Sufjan Stevens

Javelin

Javelin 2023

Illinois

Illinois 2005

Carrie & Lowell

Carrie & Lowell 2015

Reflections

Reflections 2023

America

America 2020

Planetarium

Planetarium 2017

Release credits

• Craig Montoro
  trumpet [2-3, 6, 10, 12, 14, 19-20]
• James McAlister
  drums (drum set) [2, 6, 9, 12-14, 19], percussion [2, 6, 9, 12-14, 19]
• Katrina Kerns
  background vocals [1-2, 8-10, 12, 14]
• Rosie Thomas
  background vocals [3, 5-7, 10, 14, 16-17, 19-20]
• Shara Nova
  background vocals [1-2, 8, 12]
• Sufjan Stevens
  performer

Issues

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  The Avalanche

  CD
  10 July 2006
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  T
  The Avalanche

  CD
  11 July 2006
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  T
  The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras From the Illinois Album

  Digital Media
  11 July 2006
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  The Avalanche

  2x 12" Vinyl
  31 August 2018