Big Stir Singles: The Yuletide Wave, various artists (Big Stir)

Last year we had a surfeit of fresh holiday rock drop from this independent record label, including several singles and an album. For 2020, they've rolled up pretty much everything they released last year into a new album that also includes 14 new tunes (but not the Karla Kane single, which remains separate). "Wash Your Hands of Christmas" by Nick Frater has that Roy Wood feel, Librarians With Hickeys cover the Martin Newell tune "Christmas in Suburbia," The Stan Laurels' "Noche Buena," previously compiled on A Kool Kat Kristmas Vol. 3, is here, as is the previously released "Broken Gnome" by The JAC, and Irene Peña contributes a nicely garaged-up "Will You Turn Up (For Christmas)." Spygenius rolls out the mini-musicale "Revels Without a Claus," touching on music hall, vaudeville, and power pop in the style of the Beatles' Christmas records. Addison Love leans harder on the power pop for "Utah Winter," Kelly's Heels with Steve Rinaldi throws a little old-fashioned English folk into the otherwise rocking "Merrie Christmas," The Stillsouls go upbeat with "Wasting All Her Christmas Time," Michael Simmons lives up to the billing of his mellow "Christmas Waltz," Blake Jones & the Trike Shop offer the rocking "String Lights and Hold On" and the gentle shuffle "(Jingle Bells) Ringing In Your Heart," Dolph Chaney channels Van Halen's "Panama" on his version of "Jingle Bells," and Kai Danzberg breaks out the martial drums and Christmas bells on the poppy "If Santa." If you somehow managed to miss out on Big Stir until now, this collection rolls up everything into a convenient one-click package (but spare a second click for Karla Kane too) at Bandcamp.