Christmas Special, The Boy Least Likely To (+1)

This English duo took a rare fan download from several years ago, "Little Donkey," a previous single, and expanded them into an entire Christmas album for 2010. "A Happy Christmas Baby" is a nice poppy, uptempo holiday love song expressing a belief in Santa Claus, which at the very least is better than believing the president was born in Kenya. "Blue Spruce Needles" compares leaving the old tree out to being left by your lover, "Christmas Isn't Christmas" similarly misses companionship, and "George and Andrew" is a synth-pop takeoff/tribute to "Last Christmas" and the band that originally made it. "I Can't Make It Snow" expresses feelings of helplessness in regard to the approaching holiday, and "The First Snowflake" is an acoustic guitar ballad about the short life of the title subject. They also do "The Wassail Song" and an instrumental of "In the Bleak Midwinter." This is a fairly imaginative take on the holiday with a little of the geek chic of such folks as Barenaked Ladies and The Leevees.