Silver & Gold (Sufjan Stevens album)
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| Box set by Sufjan Stevens | ||||
| Released | November 13, 2012 | |||
| Recorded | 2006–2011 | |||
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| Length | 161:36 | |||
| Label | Asthmatic Kitty | |||
| Producer | Sufjan Stevens | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 76/100 |
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| Source | Rating |
| Consequence of Sound |   |
| Paste | 7.5/10 |
| Pitchfork Media | 7.8/10 |
| PopMatters | 7/10 |
| Sputnikmusic | 4.2/5 |
Silver & Gold: Songs for Christmas, Vols. 6–10 is a five-EP box set of Christmas-related songs and carols recorded by Sufjan Stevens between 2006 and 2011. It is a follow-up to Songs for Christmas, which was released six years prior. On October 2, 2012, it was announced that Stevens would release Silver & Gold on November 13, 2012 in digital format, CD and LP boxset. On October 24, 2012, a claymation music video, animated by Lee Hardcastle, was released for "Mr. Frosty Man".
The album has received mostly positive reviews from critics, with Pitchfork giving it a 7.8 out of 10. As Keelan H. of Sputnikmusic writes,"[T]he album exists on [a] plane where introspection meets with group sing-a-longs, depression meets with joyous outbursts, traditional meets with left-field kookiness." At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 76, based on 13 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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