Happy Sufmas!

On November 6th, Asthmatic Kitty Records will release Worst Christmas Ever!, a single-album collection that distills Sufjan Stevens’ expansive holiday catalog into one record. Fifteen fan favorites, drawn from more than one hundred Christmas recordings across the box sets Songs for Christmas and Silver & Gold, will arrive alongside a new original, “On This Christmas (It Only Gets Better),” Sufjan’s first new Christmas song in nearly fifteen years. The new track is built around apology, self-assessment, and asking for forgiveness: “On this Christmas, I ask forgiveness for all the funny things I’ve said and done,” Sufjan sings.

Or choose from these
Sufjan Christmas Classics…

Songs for Christmas: Vols. 1-5

Buy THE LP BOX SET

Back in 2001, Sufjan Stevens set out to create a Christmas gift for friends and family. What resulted was a 7-song recording he dubbed Noel Vol. 1. Every few Christmases Sufjan would create a new volume to add to the collection. After years had passed Sufjan became determined to release the first five EP’s in their raw, blemished form, presented, as he describes it, with a "lavish display of ornamentation" to coincide with the spirit of excess and overindulgence that has in some ways become synonymous with the season.

Included in the 5 LP/CD Box Set package (designed by Sufjan and Stephen Halker) are lyrics, chord charts, and full recording credits for all the songs. Includes favorites like "Sister Winter," "That Was The Worst Christmas Ever," "Only At Christmas Time," and "Put The Lights on the Tree."

STREAM 'SONGS FOR CHRISTMAS'

BUY THE CD BOX SET

Silver & Gold: Songs for Christmas Vols. 6-10

Originally released in 2012 as a follow-up to 2006's Songs For Christmas: Vols 1-5, this pressing of Silver & Gold: Songs for Christmas, Vols. 6-10 features nearly 60 tracks spanning traditional hymns and holiday pop songs, as well as numerous original songs from Sufjan Stevens and a long list of collaborators. The album includes collaborations with artists such as Aaron and Bryce Dessner (The National), Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire), among others.

Box set includes:

5 EPs on 6 vinyl records
Christmas sticker sheet
Temporary tattoo sheet
Three paper ornaments (self-assembly with directions)
An apocalyptic pull-out poster
A 44-page songbook with lyrics and chord charts (sing along with your friends and enemies)
A 20-page Christmas coloring book by Stephen Halker
Hallucinogenic photographs and psychedelic graphic design
Extensive liner notes (introductory salutations and an essay on the Christmas tree by Sufjan Stevens, and a few theological words on the End Times by Pastor Vito Aiuto)