Claude says:Sufjan's 2006 Christmas project finds him arranging centuries-old hymns and carols with his typical orchestral tenderness, turning familiar songs into something hushed and devotional. You spun this through the holidays in late 2008 and 2009, landing on "Come Thou Fount" most often—something about Sufjan's fingerpicking and those swelling strings must have made the ritual feel necessary each December.