miniMatthew gets raw in “50. Christmas, 1982.” This elegiac tender pop about sexual abuse sets the past in a harsh, but accurate, light.
At Swim Two Birds has more pleasant mem-files of Christmas ’82 in “Down By the Stream.” The dreamy alt carpal tunnel chords reveal a sucky present day, however, in ’03 when a revisit with a lost love means a road not taken–dammit.