The album that takes me back to Saginaw

Summer last year i moved to Saginaw, Michigan with my cousin Hector. After lots of bonfires with friends, fishing trips, cottage houses by the lake and seeing snow for the first time i came back to my hometown in San Juan, Puerto Rico late August this year and now i cant seem to get enough of this album by Sufjan Stevens, himself a Michigander. This album a tribute to Michigan, takes you through isolated rural country sides with frozen river banks and snow covered parks with it's slow minimalist sound from instruments like: banjo, acoustic guitar, piano, xylophones, vibraphones, glockenspiels, wood floutes, sleigh bells, tambourines accompanied by Stevens fragile voice.

1. "Flint (For the Unemployed and Underpaid)" – 3:44
2. "All Good Naysayers, Speak Up! Or Forever Hold Your Peace!" – 4:33
3. "For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti" – 3:57
4. "Say Yes! to M!ch!gan!" – 2:46
   • (The track title refers to a Michigan tourism slogan from the 1980s)
5. "The Upper Peninsula" – 3:23
6. "Tahquamenon Falls" – 2:18
7. "Holland" – 3:26
8. "Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!)" – 8:20
9. "Romulus" – 4:41
10. "Alanson, Crooked River" – 1:18
11. "Sleeping Bear, Sault Saint Marie" – 2:52
12. "They Also Mourn Who Do Not Wear Black (For the Homeless in Muskegon)" – 6:21
13. "Oh God, Where Are You Now? (In Pickerel Lake? Pigeon? Marquette? Mackinaw?)" – 9:23
14. "Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou)" – 2:02
15. "Vito's Ordination Song" – 7:07

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