Michigan (album)

Michigan (styled Sufjan Stevens Presents... Greetings from Michigan, the Great Lake State on the cover) is the third studio album by American indie folk songwriter Sufjan Stevens, released on July 1, 2003, on Sounds Familyre, Asthmatic Kitty and Secretly Canadian in the US, and on Rough Trade in Europe.

It is Stevens' third studio album and features songs referencing places, events, and persons related to the U.S. state of Michigan.

[7] Album art features original hand-paintings by Martha Stewart Living crafts editor Laura Normandin.

[18] Upon the album's tenth anniversary, Stereogum's Chris DeVille stated: "[Stevens's] widescreen love letter to his home state was such a momentous leap forward... Sufjan has produced a wealth of fascinating, deeply affecting (and sometimes deeply affected) music over the years... Nowadays, aggressive guitar bands like Coliseum are considered punk or metal because indie rock is the kind of genre where neoclassical whiz kid Nico Muhly contributes string arrangements to seemingly every major record, where Régine Chassagne passionately rocks the accordion, where Bon Iver channels Richard Marx unironically.

[21] All tracks are written by Sufjan Stevens and published by New Jerusalem Music, ASCAPThe vinyl release also includes alternate arrangements of "Vito's Ordination Song" and "Romulus".