Phoebe Bridgers, Wavves and The Beths all give us Christmas tunes in a day.
Oh it suddenly got busy yesterday with three offerings from Alternative musics recent favourites. First up is Phoebe Bridgers who had one of just about everybody's favourite albums of last year.
It's slow and low and damn right miserable sounding, without listening carefully to the lyrics or the sleigh bells you'd think it was straight of her much acclaimed debut album. Still it's quite lovely and shoe in for one of our playlists... probably next year now as this years is kinda done. Anyways it's a cover that i'm afraid to say I do't know and it features Jackson Browne who is a apparently an iconic singer/songwriter.... Again means nothing to me much....
Also yesterday we had Wavves, they showed up with a Christmas double in the way of Emo Christmas and it's b-side So glad it's Christmas. After all these years there are a few bands i barely know outside of their Christmas songs. Wavves is one of those bands. Last year they gave us their take on Christmastime is here and before that we had them teaming up with the awesome Best Coast on Got Something for You. So this year I delving a little deeper and I like what i hear. The two tracks here are singalong grumpy indie on the lead track and it follows with a lo-fi slow strummed complaint and ode to the season all in one. Not entirely sure which we preffer so I've popped both below.
Finally another band that everyone seems up to date on ahead of me... this working 5 days a week plays havok with your ability to keep good taste in music. The Beths have been impressing people with their power pop punk and will probably feature on a number of year end lists by the sounds of it. Their cover of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas starts of so standardly you'd think it was She and Him. Even half way through it has a string section making it sound like a much more mainstream act. Then the guitar solo cuts in. Stay for it, it makes this the first song to really make me grin this year. It's out now in all the usual places.
It's slow and low and damn right miserable sounding, without listening carefully to the lyrics or the sleigh bells you'd think it was straight of her much acclaimed debut album. Still it's quite lovely and shoe in for one of our playlists... probably next year now as this years is kinda done. Anyways it's a cover that i'm afraid to say I do't know and it features Jackson Browne who is a apparently an iconic singer/songwriter.... Again means nothing to me much....
Also yesterday we had Wavves, they showed up with a Christmas double in the way of Emo Christmas and it's b-side So glad it's Christmas. After all these years there are a few bands i barely know outside of their Christmas songs. Wavves is one of those bands. Last year they gave us their take on Christmastime is here and before that we had them teaming up with the awesome Best Coast on Got Something for You. So this year I delving a little deeper and I like what i hear. The two tracks here are singalong grumpy indie on the lead track and it follows with a lo-fi slow strummed complaint and ode to the season all in one. Not entirely sure which we preffer so I've popped both below.
Finally another band that everyone seems up to date on ahead of me... this working 5 days a week plays havok with your ability to keep good taste in music. The Beths have been impressing people with their power pop punk and will probably feature on a number of year end lists by the sounds of it. Their cover of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas starts of so standardly you'd think it was She and Him. Even half way through it has a string section making it sound like a much more mainstream act. Then the guitar solo cuts in. Stay for it, it makes this the first song to really make me grin this year. It's out now in all the usual places.
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