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- Summary: The second set of Christmas-related songs (the first was 2006's Songs for Christmas) is five discs of songs recorded between 2006 and 2012.
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- Record Label: Asthmatic Kitty
- Genre(s): Folk, Holiday, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Chamber Pop, Progressive Folk, Holidays, Christmas
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Positive: 10 out of 13
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Mixed: 3 out of 13
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Negative: 0 out of 13
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Dec 21, 2012Part of its success is due to Stevens' uniquely ambivalent position, at once ingenious and ingenuous.
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Dec 13, 2012With more than two-and-a-half hours of music and enough extras to keep children of all ages occupied deep into the long winter's night, Stevens once again pulls off a wondrously wide-eyed antidote to the boring Christmas album.
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Dec 7, 2012Overall the compilation makes its way towards a bigger story of many ideas, emotions and textures.
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Dec 5, 2012It's very odd, varies wildly in tone and has its fair share of clunky bits, but it's all done in the spirit of fun and is always endearingly sincere.
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UncutDec 11, 2012Inspired, frustrating, wayward, indulgent, funny, heartfelt and eclectic, taken in one sitting it's far too much, like gorging on the most excessive turkey dinner with all the trimmings. [Jan 2013, p.97]
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Dec 11, 2012Some of the fun songs work on a larger scale and bear repeating.
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Nov 26, 2012We're given a playful, fun, but ultimately unrewarding compilation for anyone other than completionists.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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Apr 6, 2015
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Dec 24, 2012
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Jan 3, 2013
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