Final album released by Sufjan Stevens
Over the last five years indie rocker Sufjan Stevens has released a Christmas EP to coincide with the holiday season.
This year marks the end of the series with his Songs for Christmas box set.
The hearty package contains 40 Christmas songs, a songbook with lyrics and a chord chart, short stories by Stevens himself, a comic strip, an animated music video and stickers.
Like all of his albums, Stevens gives his distinct take on songs, which are a little different from the previous holiday collections.
Luckily his changes come as a welcomed variation.
Sufjan is quite the ambitious fellow.
Since 2000 he has recorded six full length albums, alongside these five EPs, and plans on recording one album about each one of the 50 States, his most recent being 2005’s Illinoise.
Stevens is a multi-instrumentalist who plays oboe, recorder, banjo, guitar, vibraphone, piano and a host of other instruments too numerous to mention here.
On many of the tracks he plays several of the instruments by using computer-aided multi-tracking.
That said, Sufjan gladly shares his music with friends and family, who appear playing instruments and singing along in many of his songs.
Anyone who has already spent all their Christmas cash is still in luck; each album can be streamed in its entirety from the record labels website, www.asthmatickitty.com.