Kosmo Comes For Christmas, Look Mum No Computer (Look Mum No Label)

Speaking of synth-pop, this 2023 album is essentially a holiday romp through a really well-stocked keyboard sales showroom. Never heard of this act, it appears to be a one-man band who tours Europe with his music and whose website is full of geeky wirehead-speak about building synthesizers and systems out of equal parts commercially available modular synths and Arduino hobbyist computing components. As for the music, it's more progressive-symphonic instrumental and less to do with rhythm sections and such, though it begs to have the volume slider pushed to the max. Song choice is familiar things like "Carol of the Bells," "Deck the Halls," "Sleigh Ride," "Little Drummer Boy," "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," "Mary Boy Child," "The Holly and the Ivy," "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," "Silver Bells," "Greensleeves," "Winter Wonderland," and "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town." There's also a version of the John Lennon classic titled here "War Is Over," and "Do They Know It's Christmastime." The whole thing is sort of a cross between Kraftwerk and Trans-Siberian Orchestra.