Sufjan Stevens

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Sometimes I don't even celebrate Christmas," says singer-songwriter and holiday anti-consumerist Sufjan Stevens, 31, who, paradoxically, just released a five-CD set, Songs for Christmas. He began the project in 2001 as an exercise in understanding yuletide songs, tinkering with a...

Stevens digs this "pastoral pop" record from the Fleetwood Mac-channeling Texas quintet: "It compels the listener to forget all the fussiness that goes into making an album." The twentieth-century French composer and pianist was a "modern, worldly, experimental man with a soft spot f...

Review: Mixing humorously observed originals with carols roasted on an open fire and obscurities dug out of the piano bench, these five EPs (four originally intended as gifts for fans and friends) achieve a shade of pretty just right for a secular holiday with special meaning for adults...

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