Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
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Features Disc of the day
Sufjan Stevens
Songs For Christmas Singalong
(Rough Trade, 2007)
Five year’s worth of seasonal recordings from the indie pop polymath.
We’re a mostly secular bunch here at MOJO but even the most jaded of us were tapping along to Once In Royal David’s City played on “four slightly out-of-tune pianos” that sound for all the world like a steel band. OK, so we didn’t play all five CDs consecutively – that would be like being stuck in The Danielson’s maniacal mouse organ with Jingle Bells on repeat. But such is the prolific talent of this eccentric, Episcopalian multi-instrumentalist that five discs of Christmas standards peppered with originals is mostly a good thing. With Stevens’ usual mix of wry humour (That Was The Worst Christmas Ever! nails the claustrophobia of a family Christmas) and unselfconscious joy (Hark! The Herald Angels Sing! on effects-heavy glockenspiel) what started as a gift for family and friends in 2001 is here collected with stickers, cartoons and chord charts for those who also get a banjo in their stocking.
Jenny Bulley
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 19/12/2007
Further Listening
Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State (Rough Trade)
Low – Christmas (Tugboat)
Iron & Wine – The Shepherd’s Dog (Warner)
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