Hark!: Songs for Christmas - Vol. II

by Sufjan Stevens

Hark!: Songs for Christmas - Vol. II cover art
  • Type: EP
  • Released: December 2002
  • Label: Asthmatic Kitty
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 24:57
  • Community rating: 3.35/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Originally distributed privately to friends and family before receiving a broader commercial release, this EP constitutes the second volume of his expansive holiday collection. The project lovingly reframes traditional Christmas carols and hymns through Stevens' delicate acoustic fingerpicking and idiosyncratic chamber-folk instrumentation.

Genres

Descriptors: Holiday, christmas, christian

Tracklist

  1. Angels We Have Heard On High (0:46)
  2. Put The Lights On The Tree (1:48)
  3. Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing (4:43)
  4. I Saw Three Ships (2:35)
  5. Only At Christmas Time (2:16)
  6. Once In David's Royal City (3:43)
  7. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing! (0:47)
  8. What Child Is This Anyway? (6:49)
  9. Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella (1:30)

Credits

  • Sufjan Stevens - primary artist, written-by
  • Traditional - words by, music by, written-by
  • Edward Shippen Barnes - written-by
  • John Wyeth - music by
  • Robert Robinson - words by
  • Richard W. Adams - music by
  • Henry J. Gauntlett - music by
  • Cecil Alexander - words by
  • Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - music by
  • Charles Wesley - words by
  • William Chatterton Dix - words by

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