Name: A Christmas Album (Blue Seafoam Vinyl LP)
SKU: DOCLPC1287
Availability: InStock

Artist

Bright Eyes

Album

A Christmas Album (Blue Seafoam Vinyl LP)

Label

Dead Oceans

Article number

DOCLPC1287

Release date

2025-10-17

Genre

Pop,rock,soul

Description

Bright Eyes'' Christmas Album begins with a piano, flute, ambient noise, musical saw-driven, helping weed out casual Christmas music enjoyers, but all too tempting for the most devout of Conor Oberst''s disciples, who originally learned that the warmth of the holiday season is trumped only by its potential for melancholy back in 2002 with the original Saddle Creek release. Oberst and a small army of friends at his house proceed to jamboree through Christmas classics. Holiday cheer, when delivered with Oberst''s trademark tremble, sounds more like a lament than it does hymns of ecclesiastical joy. But the spirited listener will find that the fragile, homespun, and somewhat blinkered vibe that permeates the album sets itself apart from the bog-standard, less sonically humble offerings of the holidays, and, both strangely and satisfyingly, is probably more aligned with the true spirit of the season.
Blue Seafoam Vinyl LP.

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