Perhaps the top of my checklist for what a great song needs to impress me is… layers. Nothing too shallow for my wintry mood, nay nay. If there’s a twelve page paper needed to explicate the musical entry, i’m half-gone already. What do i mean–?
Perhaps tangential, “Waiting for the Snow” by Of Monsters & Men portentously takes on human industry, existence, and love. Good stuff to listen to while looking for Christmas music.
A revisitation of ‘Baby, It’s Cold’ “Can’t Wait for Christmas” is a sneaky electro-garage tipsy-doodle of a song. Jamir Fork keeps the listener off balance with his aggressive whimsy, all the while charming with his clumsy metaphor.
The great works of art are just out of reach of our understanding, yet so close as to seem embraceable. Just when you think you get it, whoops! What IS that?! Alison Sudol’s lullaby “Christmas will be Waiting” is the folk pop to soothe and ease to sleep. But it’s plaintive yearning is so musically loose and fun (is it that tambourine??), i don’t know how to feel–except with the goosebumps. Brava.