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Songs For Christmas - Sufjan Stevens
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80 out of 100

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8.6 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 25 Ratings

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  • Summary: This five-EP box set collects holiday-themed lo-fi and impromptu tracks (a mix of standards and originals originally intended as gifts for his friends and family) recorded by Stevens over the past five years.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Observer Music Monthly
    100
    The result splendidly combines piety with celebration and musical tradition with creative boldness.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    100
    The season's most thrilling holiday release. [1 Dec 2006, p.85]
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  3. New Musical Express (NME)
    60
    There's a good single album here in need of editing.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 16
  3. Negative: 1 out of 16
  1. willc
    10
    Its been seven months since I purchased this cd set and Im still listening to it regularly. This album is ridiculously good.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. ElliottM
    4
    No thank you. I still greatly prefer my Jim Henson and the Muppets Christmas album 50000000x over.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. ToddW
    1
    'Tis the season for...five EPs from Sufjan Stevens, Tra-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-blah. Talk about urge overkill. This guy puts out product like brain-dead metacritics throwing 10s at music that won't stand the test of a month's time. I loved Come on Feel the Illinoise..., but in hindsight I realized that that record should have been slapped with a parental sticker warning, "Too much attention will turn Sufjan Stevens into the Sally Field of rock." And now we're paying the price, in more ways than one. Look, the holidays suck enough, what with having forced conversation with relatives you can't stand, seeing how many obese Stepford Wives you can hurdle at 5 a.m. at the threshold of your local Walmart, or putting yourself into Third World debt, but five EPs Sufjan? And of holidaze-influenced songs? What's the matter, you couldn't come up with an album extolling the virtues of Richard Speck? If I want to be bored to tears I'll read this blog, or listen to your next weekly offering. You gotta spare us this impulse of yours to strap on a guitar every waking moment.… Expand
    • 0 of 3 users said yes

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