Sufjan Stevens To Release Christmas Box Set
If you are still waiting for Sufjan Stevens to come to your state and extol the virtues of the Dairy Queen by your house, then you are going to have to wait just a little bit longer as the next album from the Stevens camp is going to be a box set of his Christmas recordings.
For the last couple of years, Sufjan and his cohorts have been recording Christmas EPs and distributing these lovingly made gifts to family and friends. The EPs were entirely homemade; recorded, mixed and mastered in a friend’s home, and featured a mix of traditional songs and Stevens’ originals. Now, seeking to share the Christmas spirit with everyone, the happy little elves at Asthmatic Kitty are re-releasing these recordings in one handy box set, titled Songs For Christmas! Obviously knowing the true meaning of Christmas, they’ve included the following treats:
* Five individually packaged CD EPs!
* Five Christmas stickers!
* Extensive liner notes and short stories by Sufjan Stevens!
* An original Christmas essay by Rick Moody!
* An animated music video and comic strip by Tom Eaton!
* A Christmas Songbook with lyric sheets and chord charts--so you can sing along too!
* An original Christmas Family Portrait painting of Santa Sufjan (with wife and kids!) by Jacques Bredy!
Songs For Christmas will be out on November 21st and will be the perfect stocking-filler for the indie-types in you life.
Songs For Christmas Tracklisting
Noel: Songs for Christmas, Vol. I (recorded December 2001)
1. Silent Night
2. O Come O Come Emmanuel
3. We’re Goin’ To the Country! *
4. Lo How A Rose E’er Blooming
5. It’s Christmas! Let’s Be Glad! *
6. Holy Holy, etc.
7. Amazing Grace
Hark!: Songs for Christmas, Vol. II (recorded December 2002)
1. Angels We Have Heard on High
2. Put the Lights on the Tree *
3. Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
4. I Saw Three Ships
5. Only at Christmas Time *
6. Once in Royal David’s City
7. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing!
8. What Child Is This Anyway?
9. Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella
Ding! Dong!: Songs for Christmas, Vol. III (recorded December 2003)
1. O Come, O Come Emmanuel
2. Come on! Let’s Boogey to the Elf Dance! *
3. We Three Kings
4. O Holy Night
5. That Was the Worst Christmas Ever! *
6. Ding! Dong! *
7. All the King’s Horns *
8. The Friendly Beasts
Joy: Songs for Christmas, Vol. IV (recorded December 2005)
1. The Little Drummer Boy
2. Away In A Manger
3. Hey Guys! It’s Christmas Time! *
4. The First Noel
5. Did I Make You Cry On Christmas Day? (Well, You Deserved It!) *
6. The Incarnation *
7. Joy To The World
Peace: Songs for Christmas, Vol. V (recorded June 2006)
1. Once in Royal David’s City
2. Get Behind Me, Santa! *
3. Jingle Bells
4. Christmas in July *
5. Lo! How A Rose E’er Blooming
6. Jupiter Winter *
7. Sister Winter *
8. O Come O Come Emmanuel
9. Star of Wonder *
10. Holy, Holy, Holy
11. The Winter Solstice *
* denotes original songs by Sufjan Stevens
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That is one fucking weird box set. Santa Sufjan freaks me out just a tad sry2say.
Angela agrees.