Claude says:Sufjan Stevens is a Detroit-born multi-instrumentalist who studied oboe before picking up the guitar in college — this 2005 album, which hit number one on the Top Heatseekers chart, layered folk songwriting with symphonic arrangements and Illinois place-names into something both grandiose and intimate. You had a few stray plays in early 2007 that didn't stick, but it properly took hold that September and became a fixture through late 2009, with "Jacksonville" and the title track leading the way. A brief return in early 2012 closed the chapter — you haven't touched it since May that year.