Overview
- Asthmatic Kitty announced on Thursday that it will release Worst Christmas Ever! on November 6 as a single compilation drawn from Sufjan Stevens's holiday recordings.
- The collection pulls from more than 100 tracks across the Songs for Christmas and Silver & Gold box sets and gathers fan favorites such as "Sister Winter," "Put the Lights on the Tree," and "Only at Christmas Time."
- Worst Christmas Ever! features a previously unreleased song, "On This Christmas (It Only Gets Better)," described as Stevens's first new Christmas music in about 15 years and built around apology and asking for forgiveness.
- Album credits list Stevens's long‑running collaborators, including Aaron and Bryce Dessner, Richard Reed Parry, Cat Martino, Gabriel Kahane, Casey Foubert, James McAlister, Rosie Thomas, and members of Danielson.
- Stevens began recording holiday songs in 2001 as gifts for friends and family, released material in 2006 and 2012 that totals nearly five hours of music, and the new compilation includes artwork by Ben Giles with layout and design involvement from Stevens.