RIYL: Phoebe Bridgers, Bright Eyes, Bon Iver, Father John Misty, Fleet Foxes, Beach House, St. Vincent, Patrick Watson, Tom Rosenthal
Features "On This Christmas (It Only Gets Better)," Sufjan's first new original Christmas song in nearly 15 years.
Collection of 16 holiday favorites hand-picked by Sufjan's fans from his Songs for Christmas and Silver & Gold box sets.
Worst Christmas Ever! is the first entry-level price point option into Sufjan's expansive holiday catalog, which contains over 100 Christmas recordings.
The perfect introduction for new listeners and an essential addition for longtime Sufjan Christmas devotees.
Worst Christmas Ever! arrives on translucent "Rudolph Red" vinyl, red cassette with a 6-panel J-card, and CD in a full-color gatefold wallet with a 12-page booklet insert.
On November 6th, Asthmatic Kitty Records will release Worst Christmas Ever!, a single-LP collection that distills Sufjan Stevens expansive holiday catalogdrawn from the box sets Songs for Christmas and Silver & Goldinto one definitive collection. The album pairs fifteen favorites, selected from more than one hundred Christmas recordings, with the newly released original song "On This Christmas (It Only Gets Better)," Sufjan's first new Christmas song in nearly fifteen years.
Available on LP, CD, and cassette, Worst Christmas Ever! is the perfect introduction for new listeners and an essential addition for longtime Sufjan Christmas devotees.
"Part of what makes Sufjan Stevens' contributions to the Christmas canon so enduring and remarkable is that they're almost overpoweringly effort-intensive. He views the holidays as a labor of loveworthy of creativity and care, hard work and an ocean of ideas."
NPR
"9 EPs and 100 recordings later, Stevens has undoubtedly accepted his reputation as a Bing Crosby for the thirtysomething NPR listener."
Consequence of Sound