Brian Lim wallows in the alone with the jazzy indie “Season’s Change”, a light metaphor for being left. Then continues with the salsa beat jazz pop “New Year’s Eve”, an invitation to make him plussed one.
Cold, snow-covered footsteps, unenjoyed fire… The Moody Blues lament “A Winters Tale“. Prog indie that asks, if a song is sung in the forest does it make a difference?
Make Like Monkeys take Wham’s “Last Christmas” and reimagines it with a boss retro beat. This is a whole ‘nother way suffer! No one should be lonely at Christmas!
“A Lonesome Prayer” by 3JS is a cowboy pop tribute to the sad sacks who get nuttin’ from Santa’s sack.
Encore! Okay, they’re back with “Found Love for Christmas“–more retro pop on the verge of breaking that whole alonely curse for the holidays.
Lloyd and Debby Lytton embody the existential angst of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer with their blues ballad “Show Me the Light“. Does anyone know this ’98 cartoon movie?
The Christmas Cards rhyme Christmas with loneliness in their slow-mo pop “Christmas Present“. Sentimental pop leaning into easy listening.
The Eggnog Crew present a “Christmas Miracle” when brandy begins to speak to the loneliest drunk ever. Experimental blues a la Tom Waits. Funny, in a horrible way.
Promising he’s on his way home, Sanford is impelled by you being “All Alone on Christmas“. It’s country pop with just a skoosh of blues. Hope it helps.
Static Cadets make a shaggy dog out of “The (new) Christmas Song“, a slow burn of misery and distractedness. Intimate, confessional indie.
Swamp Ass and the Meat Sweats scream up a metal storm when they’re “Alone for the Holidays“. They burn out quickly (with cautious bleeping), so you can breathe after.
Cowboy country time. Dave Dudley makes maudlin with “Lonely Christmas Again“. Some overlap with last month’s without you theme, so let’s make the distinction clear. Missing you is a singular thing. Loneliness is every[one]thing.
Slowing the moodiness, “Alone For The Holidays” pits Adrian Glynn, Nat Jay against the void. More country, now with western. He’s cryin’; she’s bitchin’.
Chancellor Arnold sings “The Christmas Song” about hurt and emotional distance. But it’s preppy indie with a drunkenly pronounced rhythm. You explain that.
Concave Onion’s “Funky Time Christmas” is technically about an unattended tree and unrequited wishlists, but it stands up via funk. So that’s weird.
Nyco Nemesis wants to share the warmth with you. Why? Because “Winter was Lonely“. New Age indie with atonal girlishness. I don’t know what that means.
Darling statistics like to reveal the great number of people today who suffer isolation in our overpopulated world. Brazil self reports over half the pop is lonely. Social media overusers claim to have no real friends. We’re all in this together, right?
Then there’s the most family-oriented, romantic, friend-gathered holiday of them all: Xmas. God is love and Santa is giving and stores want you to come on back now, y’hear. But for many, this ideal deepens the chill and heightens the emptiness. Those commercials, i’m telling you, really rub it in.
I’m not entirely sure if featuring a month of solstice solitude will achieve cathartic relief for us or drive us toward the beckoning arms of self harm… but, gotta stay busy.
Start with the blues, amiright? Marc Broussard claims to be coming home when it’s “Almost Christmas“. I hope it’s the solution he needs right now. Home can be standoffish.
Metal to balance: “You’re Alone on Christmas Eve” from Aristocorpse is probably BLUE ALERT (mine ears can not discern so, but i’d expect no less).
Also more mood than word, B. Wells (feat. DaVan Official) rap out “Christmas Time!” as if that were a bad thing.
Brad and Barry turn down the indie rock to 11 with the blubbering “I’ll be Alone for Christmas“. Not introspective so much as it is deflated. Catching the mood just by listening, so–affective AF.
SayWeCanFly is all business in “Merry Christmas, I Miss You“. Altrock attitude outlines a coffee shop encounter gone wrong.
“I’ll Miss You At Christmas” is what happens when a good song gets worked over by a talent three decades too late. E for effort, M. J. Moore. Pop deflated.
Then Mariah Carey showed up and showed us how to overdo it. “Miss You Most (At Christmas Time)” does what it needs to and not one pop more.
Still prefer Bowling for Soup’s quirk in “I Miss You Most On Christmas“. Not an essential novelty, but it rocks the calendar.
One of the funniest country numbers i ever ran before, “Break Up Before Christmas” from Corey Hunt and the Wise advises the men out there how to manage their holiday budget.
Dude York’s “Break Up Holiday” is rock that deserves a rewind as well. Classic.
Also inordinately fond of “Breakup For The Holidays” Migratory Animals, a brazen electronic pop in your face.
Jellyrolling the ragtime Goldentusk pulls out the piano bar stops singing “I’m Breaking Up with You for Christmas“. But he’s just telling you now, so what’d you get him? (Rotten to the encore.)
Cori Connors covers Tarja’s observance how much “You Would Have Loved This“. (This = winter.) She packs a punch in this soft indie pop with power vocals.
Also hemmed in by the winter weather, Alison Trelfa doodles around easy listening jazz with “It’s Not Christmas Without You“.
David McMullen’s “Christmas Without You” is just as bathetic, and he’s ready to yacht rock call it all off.
What the funk? Don Lee’s “Black Christmas” is especially dark without you. Turn it up.
James Coyle begins mid-breakup with the poignantly mean-spirited “A Very AIDS-y Christmas“. BLUE ALERT, but hilarious (if you ask me) pop. An encore of comic excess.
