Yes, it's that time of year again. It's warm inside, the lights are glowing and by now there's enough food in the kitchen to feed a whole brigade. Let there be peace in your heart and love all around you: Happy Christmas everyone!
I don't know about you, but my Christmas is lacking some proper indie pop this year. Having just been inadvertently exposed to the latest Coldplay single "Christmas Lights" ("Still waiting for the snow to fall/It doesn't really feel like Christmas at all"), I felt a sudden urge to rush home and listen to the first five Black Sabbath albums in a row to cleanse my ears. Then I decided this short post would humbly go some way towards restoring dignity in the Christmas single tradition, and of course talk about great indie music.
Whether you like Christmas or not (it's become trendy to hate it, or at least to say so), it's difficult to escape all those childhood memories and a certain sense of nostalgia. For many people, it can also be a time of worry and heartache and I think it's only natural when songs about Christmas convey a little bit of melancholy, without necessarily sounding too syrupy or depressing (or totally crap). So it's hats off once again to the Baltimore duo Beach House for their christmas single "I Do Not Care For The Winter Sun", offered as a free download by the band, a simple yet touching love song carried by the otherworldly voice of Victoria Legrand (the niece of Michel Legrand, for the frenchies out there). Everything that's good about Beach House is in that track, although it probably doesn't match the greatness of singles "Zebra" and "Norway" from this year's excellent "Teen Dream". That album has been blogged about a million times though, so I better stop here.
Wish you all a wonderful time!
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