Fresh from recording one of the best records of 2018, Ten Fables Of Young Ambition And Passionate Love, out now via Anyway Records, and reviewed by me here, St. Lenox (Andrew Choi) has returned with a superb Christmas song called... "Christmas Song", conveniently. The tune is, like most of what this guy produces, buoyant and full of the sort of energy of life that too much American indie is sorely lacking.
As Andrew has explained elsewhere, the narrator of the song is an unreliable one, but it doesn't necessarily matter as the lyrics -- "Don't fade away again, it's almost Christmas" -- retain the sort of poignant power his best songs usually do. It helps that the tune here is elegant, flashes of Charlie Brown piano-chords stretched out under Choi's plaintive vocal performance. "Christmas Song" is exactly the sort of Christmas song you'd expect St. Lenox to release and I can't offer higher praise than that.
"Christmas Song" is out now via Amazon, iTunes, or the link below.
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