Christmas 2011: Deck the Halls
HOMETAPEShome-tapes.com
Hometapes Records has compiled an impressive 21 tracks of Christmas songs! I naturally went to hear Wham’s cover “Last Christmas” just to see what Zorch would do to the song. The result is a weird video-gamey version.
You can download the entire album at
bandcamp.com.
Track listing:
- Collections of Colonies of Bees “Jolly Olde St. Nicholas”
- Doug Paisley “Winter Days”
- Matt White “Mary Had A Baby”
- Zorch “Last Christmas”
- Ormonde “Angels We Have Heard On High”
- Ape School “Cold, Cold Christmas”
- Andrew Fitzpatrick “Toyland”
- CYNE “Boxing Day”
- Breathe Owl Breathe “Snow Blow”
- Roberto C. Lange “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence”
- Jon Mueller “Hallelujah”
- Slaraffenland “Feliz Navidad”
- The Caribbean “What Child Is This”
- Brad Laner & Lauren Kinney “Numen Lumen”
- Sunless “Here Come Those Bells”
- Oh! Pears “It Came Upon A Midnight Clear”
- Jon Minor & Jim Schoenecker “Happy Xmas (War Is Not Over)”
- Leverage Models “Celebrant”
- All Tiny Creatures “Deck The Halls (Mannheim Steamroller Cover)”
- Shedding “There’s Always Tomorrow”
- Keith Sunset “Star Shepherds”
SPECTRALS
spectrals.co.uk
Louis Jones is Spectrals. His album, Bad Penny is described as a mixture of “soul, doo wop, and a garage rock” yet maintaining a pop sensibility.
For the holidays, Spectrals released “It’s Christmas and I’ve Got Everything I Want” on Pitchfork.
The special 8-minute version “featuring some damaged dub at the end” is exclusive on the Pitchy website. I haven’t heard of the radio version myself.
JOBERG & GURNER
jobergandgurner.com
Comedians/music duo Joberg & Gurner is re-releasing their album Manhood on December 13th via Comedy Central. To promote it, check out their brand new video for “Christmas Lovin’ Jew”. It’s everything you would expect from a song called “Christmas Lovin’ Jew”. Sucks to be jew!
Looking of their track listing (“The Dirty Sanchez”, “Anniversary (Kiss Me Where I Pee)”, “Manhood”) it looks quite naughty and isn’t necessary an xmas album.
I was happy to hear that they have toured with Stephen Lynch, who is quite the funnyman/singer (I have a few of his albums!)