Songs for Christmas
Sufjan Stevens
If you like the idea of Christmas music but think you hate the actual music, Sufjan Stevens’ Songs for Christmas might be the album(s) for you. I really wish it was a leaner package (it’s 39 songs) so you might want prune your copy down a bit.
It irks me when a band who makes pretty catchy tunes also possesses an unerring talent for producing ingenious videos (see above). Even this “making of” video displays an inventiveness that suggests if they weren’t writing songs, they could just as easily be excellent filmmakers.
Maybe I can find solace in the latest tune being so derivative of The Flaming Lips.
