Claude says:Sufjan's seasonal detour through carols and originals—all chamber-pop arrangements and quiet arrangements layered with his particular attention to arrangement and restraint—landed in your rotation right around the holidays in '08, and you kept circling back to "Lo! How a Rose E'er Blooming" and "Holy Holy, etc." during those first couple winters, trading bombast for the kind of intimate production that makes even the most familiar carols feel like rediscoveries.