"She Won't Be Home," Ricky French & the Forces of the Interior (Eckley)

The Americana thread of 2018's new Christmas music is carried through with this tune about lost love on the holiday from a Columbus, Ohio group I haven't encountered before. It's actually a cover of an Erasure tune, in this rendering a cool midtempo lament that could have been an outtake from the Old 97's or Rodney Crowell's albums and it leans more rock than country. I like it.