Another independent label compilation for 2008, this one is for sale at their website. The liner notes take pride in noting that all 17 cuts are original holiday tunes and even optimistically hope there are some future standards on the list. That's up to listeners, of course. Remington Super 60's "Here Comes Christmas" and The Very Most's "This Year, Christmas Came on Nov. 4" have been reviewed here before, the latter on Cherryade's 2008 compilation. Nina Hynes offers the breathy "Twinkle," a kind of 60s chanteuse performance. Bill Baird's "Christmas In Jail" is another in a series of similarly themed songs, this one a little more ethereal than its predecessors. Idaho posits the proposition that "Santa Claus Is Weird," though the artist admits he held onto his Santa belief through the age of 13, so I guess it's all a matter of degree. Normandy offers what I believe is a first of its kind, "Merry Christmas, Blogosphere!" Great opening: "Santa bring to me / credibility." Loxsly discovers that "Santa Got the Spins," which is to say the eggnog was spiked and a fake, drunken Santa ruined Christmas. Jape and David Kitt sing "I Will Cry This Christmas," a synth-pop dirge of loneliness and alienation on the holiday. The Specimen "Wish It Would Snow" so they could get out of going to school, Nonstop Everything sticks it to Idaho, above, with "There Is No Santa, Little Boy," which ironically is a clattery, shambling instrumental, and My Teenage Stride gets a little low-rent Spector ambience on the uptempo "Is It Christmastime Already." A solid indie-rock Christmas collection.
An Indiecator Christmas, various artists (Indiecator)
Another independent label compilation for 2008, this one is for sale at their website. The liner notes take pride in noting that all 17 cuts are original holiday tunes and even optimistically hope there are some future standards on the list. That's up to listeners, of course. Remington Super 60's "Here Comes Christmas" and The Very Most's "This Year, Christmas Came on Nov. 4" have been reviewed here before, the latter on Cherryade's 2008 compilation. Nina Hynes offers the breathy "Twinkle," a kind of 60s chanteuse performance. Bill Baird's "Christmas In Jail" is another in a series of similarly themed songs, this one a little more ethereal than its predecessors. Idaho posits the proposition that "Santa Claus Is Weird," though the artist admits he held onto his Santa belief through the age of 13, so I guess it's all a matter of degree. Normandy offers what I believe is a first of its kind, "Merry Christmas, Blogosphere!" Great opening: "Santa bring to me / credibility." Loxsly discovers that "Santa Got the Spins," which is to say the eggnog was spiked and a fake, drunken Santa ruined Christmas. Jape and David Kitt sing "I Will Cry This Christmas," a synth-pop dirge of loneliness and alienation on the holiday. The Specimen "Wish It Would Snow" so they could get out of going to school, Nonstop Everything sticks it to Idaho, above, with "There Is No Santa, Little Boy," which ironically is a clattery, shambling instrumental, and My Teenage Stride gets a little low-rent Spector ambience on the uptempo "Is It Christmastime Already." A solid indie-rock Christmas collection.
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