listen: sufjan stevens christmas singalong!

"Sufjan indulged in the project initially as an exercise to make himself “appreciate” Christmas more" It seems Sufjan was interested in the contrast between the excesses of Christmas and the spirit of it (or the "sacred and the profane"). Many of the songs were the work of an annual collaboration between Sufjan and his friend and minister Vito Aiuto; the songs themselves were distributed to friends and family.

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