Illinois

Rough Trade 50th Anniversary Editions 2005: Sufjan Stevens – Illinois Sufjan Stevens maps the American heartland with a rare balance of wonder and unease. A lingering, gorgeous masterpiece. Includes Rough Trade Exclusive superhero splatter vinyl Insert with exclusive stories and interviews with the people behind the music Limited to 2500 copies Tracklist Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You’re Going to Have to Leave Now, or, I Have Fought the Big Knives and Will Continue to Fight Them Until They Are Off Our Lands! Come On! Feel the Illinoise! (Part I: The World’s Columbian Exposition / Part II: Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream) John Wayne Gacy, Jr. Jacksonville A Short Reprise for Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, but for Very Good Reasons Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother! One Last ‘Whoo-Hoo!’ for the Pullman!! Go! Chicago! Go! Yeah! Casimir Pulaski Day To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea Concerning Your Predicament, and It Involves an Inner Tube, Bath Mats, and 21 Able-bodied Men The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts Prairie Fire That Wanders About A Conjunction of Drones Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens Has an Existential Crisis in the Great Godfrey Maze The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us! They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh! Let’s Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don’t Think They Heard It All the Way Out in Bushnell In This Temple as in the Hearts of Man for Whom He Saved the Earth The Seer’s Tower The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders (Part I: The Great Frontier / Part II: Come to Me Only with Playthings Now) Riffs and Variations on a Single Note for Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodds, and the King of Swing, to Name a Few Out of Egypt, into the Great Laugh of Mankind, and I Shake the Dirt from My Sandals as I Run More than a record store. Since 1976. The year 2026 marks five decades of Rough Trade. From a small shop on West London’s Kensington Park Road to a global community of music heads, it’s been half a century of backing counterculture, celebrating the physical format and championing creativity. We exist to serve the die-hards and the curious alike – fiercely independent, always chasing what’s next. This is 50.