Silver & Gold-Songs For Christmas II

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Album: Silver & Gold-Songs For Christmas II (Vol.6-10)
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Silent Night	More Info...
2)	Lumberjack Christmas/No One Can Save You from Christmases Past	More Info...
3)	Coventry Carol	More Info...
4)	The Midnight Clear	More Info...
5)	Carol of St. Benjamin the Bearded One	More Info...
6)	Go Nightly Cares	More Info...
7)	Barcarola (You Must Be a Christmas Tree)	More Info...
8)	Auld Lang Syne	More Info...
9)	Ah Holy Jesus	More Info...
10)	Behold the Birth of Man, the Face of Glory	More Info...
11)	Ding-a-ling-a-ring-a-ling	More Info...
12)	How Shall I Fitly Meet Thee?	More Info...
13)	Mr Frosty Man	More Info...
14)	Make Haste to See the Baby	More Info...
15)	Ah Holy Jesus (With Reed Organ)	More Info...
16)	Hark! The Herald Angels Sing	More Info...
17)	Morning (Sacred Harp)	More Info...
18)	Idumea (Sacred Harp)	More Info...
19)	Eternal Happiness Or Woe	More Info...
20)	Ah Holy Jesus (A Capella)	More Info...
21)	I Am Santa's Helper	More Info...
22)	Maoz Tzur (Rock of Ages)	More Info...
23)	Even the Earth Will Perish and the Universe Give Way	More Info...

Album: Silver & Gold-Songs For Christmas II (Vol.6-10)
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Silent Night	More Info...
2)	Lumberjack Christmas/No One Can Save You from Christmases Past	More Info...
3)	Coventry Carol	More Info...
4)	The Midnight Clear	More Info...
5)	Carol of St. Benjamin the Bearded One	More Info...
6)	Go Nightly Cares	More Info...
7)	Barcarola (You Must Be a Christmas Tree)	More Info...
8)	Auld Lang Syne	More Info...
9)	Ah Holy Jesus	More Info...
10)	Behold the Birth of Man, the Face of Glory	More Info...
11)	Ding-a-ling-a-ring-a-ling	More Info...
12)	How Shall I Fitly Meet Thee?	More Info...
13)	Mr Frosty Man	More Info...
14)	Make Haste to See the Baby	More Info...
15)	Ah Holy Jesus (With Reed Organ)	More Info...
16)	Hark! The Herald Angels Sing	More Info...
17)	Morning (Sacred Harp)	More Info...
18)	Idumea (Sacred Harp)	More Info...
19)	Eternal Happiness Or Woe	More Info...
20)	Ah Holy Jesus (A Capella)	More Info...
21)	I Am Santa's Helper	More Info...
22)	Maoz Tzur (Rock of Ages)	More Info...
23)	Even the Earth Will Perish and the Universe Give Way	More Info...

Performer Notes

Audio Mixer: Sufjan Stevens.
Liner Note Authors: Thomas Vito Aiuto; Sufjan Stevens.
Recording information: Brooklyn, NY (02/2012); Brookyn, NY (02/2012); Honey Jar, Brooklyn, NY (02/2012); Madison, WI (02/2012); Rochester, NY (02/2012); The New Jerusalem Rec Room, Clarksboro, NJ (02/2012); Brooklyn, NY (11/2006-12/2006); Brookyn, NY (11/2006-12/2006); Honey Jar, Brooklyn, NY (11/2006-12/2006); Madison, WI (11/2006-12/2006); Rochester, NY (11/2006-12/2006); The New Jerusalem Rec Room, Clarksboro, NJ (11/2006-12/2006); Brooklyn, NY (11/2007-12/2007); Brookyn, NY (11/2007-12/2007); Honey Jar, Brooklyn, NY (11/2007-12/2007); Madison, WI (11/2007-12/2007); Rochester, NY (11/2007-12/2007); The New Jerusalem Rec Room, Clarksboro, NJ (11/2007-12/2007); Brooklyn, NY (12/2008); Brookyn, NY (12/2008); Honey Jar, Brooklyn, NY (12/2008); Madison, WI (12/2008); Rochester, NY (12/2008); The New Jerusalem Rec Room, Clarksboro, NJ (12/2008); Brooklyn, NY (12/2009); Brookyn, NY (12/2009); Honey Jar, Brooklyn, NY (12/2009); Madison, WI (12/2009); Rochester, NY (12/2009); The New Jerusalem Rec Room, Clarksboro, NJ (12/2009); Brooklyn, NY (12/2010); Brookyn, NY (12/2010); Honey Jar, Brooklyn, NY (12/2010); Madison, WI (12/2010); Rochester, NY (12/2010); The New Jerusalem Rec Room, Clarksboro, NJ (12/2010); Brooklyn, NY (2007); Brookyn, NY (2007); Honey Jar, Brooklyn, NY (2007); Madison, WI (2007); Rochester, NY (2007); The New Jerusalem Rec Room, Clarksboro, NJ (2007); Brooklyn, NY (2011-2012); Brookyn, NY (2011-2012); Honey Jar, Brooklyn, NY (2011-2012); Madison, WI (2011-2012); Rochester, NY (2011-2012); The New Jerusalem Rec Room, Clarksboro, NJ (2011-2012); Brooklyn, NY (2012); Brookyn, NY (2012); Honey Jar, Brooklyn, NY (2012); Madison, WI (2012); Rochester, NY (2012); The New Jerusalem Rec Room, Clarksboro, NJ (2012).
Silver & Gold, the 2012 follow-up to 2006's Songs for Christmas, offers up another five-EP set of schizophrenic seasonal cheer from one of indie pop's most prolific and maddeningly detail-oriented overachievers. Housed in an incredibly colorful box that yields volumes 6-10 of the series, they are presented in meticulously decorated, single cardboard sleeves that feel like part of a graphic design thesis, and are accompanied by an 80-page booklet filled with lyrics, chord charts, childhood photos, and personal and production liner notes peppered with rainbow headers, temporary tattoos that include a skeleton Santa, a Manga unicorn and an emo-Jesus, and a construct-it-yourself holiday ornament (comic book-style instructions are provided). Stylistically, it's a lot to take in which, not surprisingly, applies to the music as well. For the most part, Silver & Gold stays true to Stevens' predilection for kitchen sink, lo-fi chamber pop, but he plays fast and loose with the formula, offering up nervy, post-rock oddities like "Mr. Frosty Man" and "X-Spirit Catcher," progressive folk epics in "The Boy with the Star on his Head" and "Christmas Unicorn," and an Age of Adz-inspired rendition of yuletide favorite "Alphabet Street," by Prince in lieu of just standards. That's not to say that the Christmas spirit has been subverted, as Stevens provides plenty of traditional holiday cheer ("Joy to the World," "Angels We Have Heard on High," "Silent Night," "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" (which clocks in at 40 seconds and is performed only on recorders), and his band of disparate merry makers, who include Aaron and Bryce Dessner (the National), Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire), and assorted members of the Castanets and the Danielson Famile, among others, who help to keep things lively and spontaneous, resulting in an audio experience that's akin to pressing your ear against the door of a rehearsal room in a church basement, or watching a Wes Anderson movie while listening to A Charlie Brown Christmas. ~ James Christopher Monger

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