Foxes!

Bloody hell. From the numbers over the past three days I should just post Christmas songs all year round.

Today’s Christmas song is, er, Christmas Songs by I wrote about the band back in August as being another part of current lo-fi indiepop trend of the moment, and Christmas Songs slots right into that genre. On the most part, it doesn’t feel particularly festive, although it does feature my favourite line in a while (“I’m jolly glad you found me at the jolliest time of the year”) that manages to make two uses of the word jolly completely earnest. I like the implication of Santa essentially running a sweatshop with elves that have nowhere else to go too. With a bit of wordplay and some backwards imagery, have actually come up with a rather unique spin on the festive song. It’s short and to the point, and a refrain of “I hope you’ll be okay” suggests things might not be as grim as initial listens suggest.

This is one song from a five track EP released by Foxes! last year. You can download the rest of it for free from their Last.fm.