Claude says:Sufjan's second state album drew from criminal records, literary archives, and Illinois history, stitching them into sprawling orchestral folk with banjos, oboes, and low-fi bedroom production that somehow became his biggest commercial success and eventually a Tony-nominated Broadway musical. You didn't pick it up until 2013—eight years after release—but it's been a reliable return ever since, with summers hitting hardest: you keep going back to "Chicago," "Casimir Pulaski Day," and "John Wayne Gacy, Jr."