{"id":664733,"date":"2026-11-02T17:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/664733\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T17:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T17:00:08","slug":"listen-to-sufjan-stevens-new-song-on-this-christmas-it-only-gets-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/664733\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to Sufjan Stevens\u2019 New Song \u201cOn This Christmas (It Only Gets Better)\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween may be barely behind us but <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/3947-sufjan-stevens\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sufjan Stevens<\/a> is already in the holiday spirit. His forthcoming compilation Worst Christmas Ever! compiles a mix of Yuletide standards done up Stevens style (\u201cAngels We Have Heard on High (Christmas Infinity Voyage Version)\u201d) and originals from his extensive holiday catalog. Among them is a new track, \u201cOn This Christmas (It Only Gets Better),\u201d which you can now listen to below. Worst Christmas Ever! is out November 6 via <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/asthmatickitty.com\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/asthmatickitty.com\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/asthmatickitty.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Asthmatic Kitty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stevens\u2019 love for Christmas is well-documented; according to a statement, he has written and recorded more than 100 Christmas songs since 2001. Worst Christmas Ever! features a number of tracks that previously appeared on his Songs for Christmas, Vols. 1-5 and the 2012 box set Silver &amp; Gold: Songs for Christmas, Vols. 6-10. Collaborators across the record include the National\u2019s Aaron and Bryce Dessner, Arcade Fire\u2019s Richard Reed Parry, Cat Martino, Gabriel Kahane, and Casey Foubert.<\/p>\n<p>Although Stevens hasn\u2019t debuted a new album since 2023\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/sufjan-stevens-javelin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Javelin<\/a>, he has remained active on the release front. In 2024, he shared a 20th anniversary <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/sufjan-stevens-announces-seven-swans-20th-anniversary-reissue\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reissue<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/7512-seven-swans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seven Swans<\/a>. Last year, he celebrated a decade of <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/sufjan-stevens-carrie-and-lowell-10th-anniversary-edition\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carrie &amp; Lowell<\/a> with its own reissue, and released the song \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/mina-tindle-and-sufjan-stevens-share-new-song-heaven-thunder-listen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Heaven Thunder<\/a>\u201d with Mina Tindle. In September, Stevens <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/story\/sufjan-stevens-makes-first-live-appearance-in-over-eight-years\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">made a surprise appearance<\/a> at Meg Lui\u2019s show in Kingston, New York, marking his first public musical performance in over eight years, following a 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/sufjan-stevens-undergoing-treatment-for-guillain-barre-syndrome\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">diagnosis with Guillain-Barr\u00e9 syndrome<\/a>, a rare disorder in which the body\u2019s immune system attacks the nerves.<\/p>\n<p>Correction: A previous version of this story mistakenly noted \u201cOn This Christmas\u201d was a newly unearthed vault track<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Halloween may be barely behind us but Sufjan Stevens is already in the holiday spirit. His forthcoming compilation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[964,146,85,46,409,6440],"class_list":["post-664733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-audio","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-new-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}