STEVENS,SUFJAN
SILVER & GOLD (6LP BOX) - LP
UPC: 729920166725
Label: ASTHMATIC KITTY
Format: LP
Release Date: November 29, 2024
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'silver & gold: songs for christmas, vols 6-10' expands on the tradition of sufjan stevens’ first box-set, 'songs for christmas, vols 1-5', and features nearly 60 tracks that investigate the canon of devotional hymns and holiday pop songs, as well as 18 original songs from sufjan stevens.
the album includes collaborations with artists such as aaron and bryce dessner (the national), and richard reed parry (arcade fire), among others.
Rediscover Sufjan Stevens' "Silver & Gold: Songs for Christmas Vols. 6-10." This 6-LP set offers 3 hours of festive originals and reimagined classics. Experience Stevens' blend of folk, indie rock, and unique sounds in a fresh take on holiday music.
Who can save us from the infidels of Christmas commodity? Look no further, tired shopper, for your hero arrives as the diligent songwriter Sufjan Stevens, army of one, banjo in one hand, drum machine in the other, holed up in his room, surrounded by hymnals, oratorios, music charts, sacred harp books, paper-clipped-photo-copied Readers Digest Christmas catalogs—singing his barbaric yawp above the snow-capped rooftops.
His song is love; his song is hope; his song is peace, conjuring the fruitcake world of his own imagination with steadfast affection for the unattainable bliss of Christmas Promises -- summoning the company of angels, the helper elves, the shepherds keeping flock, the coupon-clippers, the marathon runners, the grocery store baggers, the bridge and tunnel drivers, the construction workers,the street sweepers, the single mothers, the rich and the poor, the walking dead, the Virgin Mary, the Holy Spirit, the Prince of Persia, and all the invisible hosts of heaven to participate in this absurd cosmic adventure, pursuing holly-jolly songs of hope and redemption with a sacred heart for the enduring love for the holiness of Christmas, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.
TRACK LIST:
gloria: songs for christmas, vol. vi:
1. silent night
2. lumberjack christmas / no one can save you from christmases past
3. coventry carol
4. the midnight clear
5. carol of st. benjamin the bearded one
6. go nightly cares
7. barcarola (you must be a christmas tree)
8. auld lang syne
i am santa's helper: songs for christmas, vol. vii:
1. christ the lord is born
2. christmas woman:
3. break forth o beauteous heavenly light
4. happy family christmas
5. jingle bells
6. mysteries of the christmas mist
7. lift up your heads ye mighty gates
8. we wish you a merry christmas
9. ah holy jesus
10. behold the birth of man, the face of glory
11. ding-a-ling-a-ring-a-ling
12. how shall i fitly meet thee?
13. mr. frosty man
14. make haste to see the baby
15. ah holy jesus (with reed organ)
16. hark! the herald angels sing
17. morning (sacred harp)
18. idumea (sacred harp)
19. eternal happiness or woe
20. ah holy jesus (acapella)
21. i am santa's helper
22. maoz tzur (rock of ages)
23. even the earth will perish and the universe give way
christmas infinity voyage: songs for christmas, vol. viii:
1. angels we have heard on high
2. do you hear what i hear?
3. christmas in the room
4. it came upon a midnight clear
5. good king wenceslas
6. alphabet st.
7. particle physics
8. joy to the world
9. the child with the star on his head
let it snow: songs for christmas, vol. ix:
1. i'll be home for christmas
2. santa claus is coming to town
3. the sleigh in the moon (featuring cat martino)
4. sleigh ride
5. ave maria (featuring cat martino)
6. x-mas spirit catcher
7. let it snow! let it snow! let it snow!
8. holly jolly christmas
9. christmas face (featuring sebastian krueger)
christmas unicorn: songs for christmas, vol. x:
1. have yourself a merry little christmas
2. it came upon a midnight clear
3. up on the housetop
4. angels we have heard on high
5. we need a little christmas
6. happy karma christmas
7. we three kings
8. justice delivers its gift
9. christmas unicorn
