Merry Halloween: A Scarily Early Guide To This Year’s New Christmas Albums

It happens every year: Before spooky season even really gets rolling, musical artists start announcing new Christmas albums. If you're the type of person who despises Christmas music, the early onset yuletide onslaught might fill you with terror, which makes it a perfectly perverse annual Halloween-week feature here at Stereogum. Here is this year's potentially frightening holiday rundown.Sufjan Stevens' Worst Chrismas Ever!Let's start with the album Stereogum's indie-leaning listeners are most likely to care about. The new comp Worst Christmas Ever! brings together the best of Sufjan Stevens' myriad Christmas releases onto one disc. The 16-song tracklist includes one new song, "On This Christmas (It Only Gets Better)." It's Stevens' first new holiday tune in 15 years and first new song of any kind since recovering from Guillain-Barré syndrome. [Out 11/6 on Asthmatic Kitty.]Alanis Morissette's Good Weather For Immaculate ConceptionFor several years now, Alanis Morissette has been releasing new holiday songs every time the season rolls around. Her first Christmas album, the cheekily titled Good Weather For Immaculate Conception, combines those tracks with new recordings. Guests incl...