You Get Ska For Christmas!, Combustible Nuts (self-issued)

There's really no shortage of Christmas music done by modern surf-punk ska bands, so what was going through the heads of this bunch of folks from Buffalo, NY when they dropped two whole albums of Christmas music for 2024? Not sure, but I'm only sorry it took till the end of the season for me to discover them. This is the first of the two albums, consisting of 18 original, jaundiced, hilarious takes on the holiday, as the titles will attest. (They like to put everything in capitol letters, but it looks horrendous in practice, so humor me.) "Christmas Sucks!," "Guess What I Got You? Nothing!," "Drunk For Christmas!," "Ruin Christmas Just Because!," "You Ruined Christmas and My Life!," "Holiday Fist Fight!," "Merry and Miserable," and more of the same. I would note some might think the 19th tune, a cover of the Vandals' "Grandpa's Last Christmas!," is taking things a little too far, but given that the song mocks the mom who tells the kids the title every year for decades as much as anything else, I'll allow it. Streaming and downloads, and there's a separate review for the other album here as well.