Another Pobbles Christmas, Pobbles (PC Music)

Pobbles is A.G. Cook from the New Pornographers and visual artist George Michael Brower, and this 2023 release is a seven-song EP of short synth-pop tunes. "We Wish You" is a reduction of the familiar Merry Christmas song featuring mildly Chipmunks-style helium vocals, no doubt generated electronically. "Woodshop" and "Plasticshop" are mostly evocations of workshop noises via synthesizer, "Scenes of Winter's End" alternates loud synth noises with nominally holiday-sounding kid singing over organs and sequencers, "Silent Chimney Descent" is a short vocal in a descending melody, "The Gift" continues the high vocals and gentle melodies, and "Sleigh" is mildly frantic synths and sequencers. It's mostly listenable, although it would need to be a fairly eclectic playlist to include any of this. Whether this is "another" Pobbles Christmas is a matter of opinion, as the only previous Pobbles release is the 2017 song "Pobbles," which is more of the same, though a little bit more melodic, uptempo and bouncy, and the lyrics are difficult to understand. On Bandcamp.