“Darling, It’s Cold Out” by Cassiøpeia is a pining portrait of indie needs that may be blaming holiday romcoms on the need for winter romancing. Breathy ultralight pop with a bossa nova beat.
Electronic queer pop from Europe sets OIOIOIO to redo “Parson Brown” as a reaching sooo hard for the rhyme poem of inconsequence. (He’s hosting his Christmas party by showing movies!)(Snicker!)
Christmas movies they move me, avers Lachlan Ondre (feat. Lyn) in the R+B on again rap off again “The Bells Ring“. Pedestrian, yet i can’t help but clap along.
“Merry Christmas To You” sings Aaron Layne with the usual suspects of nog, movies, carols. But the jazz band shtick fronted by a strong uke line sells me.