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Every year, Sufjan Stevens records a Christmas record. His first five albums were collected on the box set Songs for Christmas, released by Asthmatic Kitty in 2006. But he hasn't stopped making them. Indeed, Sufjan made Christmas records in 2006, 2007, and, yes, 2008, passing them out to friends and family.

2008's edition, Volume 8, is subtitled Astral Inter Planet Space Captain Christmas Infinity Voyage, and it contains takes on such traditional Xmas tunes as "Angels We Have Heard on High" and "Do You See What I See", as well as the originals "Christmas in the Room" and "The Child With the Star on his Head".

There are no plans to release Volume 8, though Asthmatic Kitty has plenty of Sufjan-related Xmas fun going on over on their website.

Sufjan Stevens: Songs for Christmas Volume 8: Astral Inter Planet Space Captain Christmas Infinity Voyage tracklist:

01 Angels We Have Heard on High
02 Do You See What I See?
03 It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
04 Christmas in the Room
05 Good King Wenceslas
06 Joy to the World
07 The Child With the Star on His Head