24 New Holiday Songs Out This Week
The holidays are upon us, and whether you’re feeling festive or not, musicians are climbing aboard the tinsel bandwagon with new songs for the season. We offer to you a week’s worth of them, nestled in one place, like gifts under a tree.
We already posted
dozens of new holiday songs this year so far. Here are more that came out this week.
CHASSOL - MESSAGE OF CHRISTMAS
French composer, musician and Solange collaborator Chassol has given his unique sample-oriented style to this wonderful holiday EP. He says (in perhaps not the most eloquent translation), This music evokes the feeling of going outside at Christmas, of walking on the snow carpet where the sound of footsteps is choked.
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Welcome to the 45th and likely very last Songs of the Week of 2020. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because there weren’t quite enough inspiring songs to put together a full list, so this week’s list covers the last two weeks, but we still only came up with nine choices rather than a Top 10. This week we have quite a few holiday songs, as well as some reworked versions of previous songs.
SLOWTHAI - THOUGHTS
slowthai has an anticipated new album,
TYRON, due in 2021, and here s a new non-album track built around an intense, stream-of-consciousness freestyle.
Hayley Williams followed her excellent debut solo album
Petals For Armor with an acoustic EP featuring stripped-back versions of two songs from the album, and this entirely new song, which is a brief but stunning offering of bedroom folk.
ANTI-FLAG - THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS IS OVER (IF YOU BUY IT)
Anti-Flag, who released one of our favorite punk albums of 2020, released a Christmas song, and as you d probably expect from this band, it s not exactly about holiday cheer, but instead it s a fired-up political punk rager.
Song Recorded After She Recovered From COVID-19. Dec 18, 2020 By Christopher Roberts Anna Burch
Detroit singer/songwriter/guitarist Anna Burch has shared a brand new song, “Your Heart May Be Heavy.” Burch says it’s a hopeful Christmas song to close out a tough year, one in which she was diagnosed with COVID-19 and recovered. The song follows her sophomore solo album,
If You’re Dreaming, which was released in early April via Polyvinyl. Listen to “Your Heart May Be Heavy” below.
Burch had this to say about the song in a press release: “I knew I wanted to write a Christmas song after the difficult year we’ve all had, because of how emotionally potent they can be. When I hear Judy Garland sing ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’ I can’t help but well up with tears while still remaining hopeful. I came up with the chord progression on piano, but then I got COVID. Thankfully I had a mild case, but not only was my motivation and crea