Comfort and Joy, Tinashe (self-issued)

I've never encountered Tinashe before, but she's an established modern R'nB singer who recently took over her own marketing and distribution. For 2020 she dropped this six-song holiday EP (seven if you count the 15-second title song at the very beginning) in which she sings four antique carols and two modern pop numbers. The performances are the modern soul sound that borrows a lot from hip-hop but still emphasizes melody, and the songs chosen lend themselves very well to this approach. She does mid-tempo takes on "Angels We Have Heard on High," "Last Christmas" and "Have Yourself a Merry Christmas," slow-jams "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," and does a more traditional ballad treatment on "O Holy Night" and "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts)." This is very nice and too short; I wonder if she'll extend this into a full album at some later date.