After returning in the summer with some once-off gigs and an EP, the math-rock chancers Adebisi Shank have released a Christmas album.
Titled Selected Festive Works 2007 to 2025, it varies between unique and traditional covers of Christmas tunes.
The Charlie Brown Christmas song ‘Christmas Time Is Here’ is a faithful version featuring MayKay on vocals, and there’s a more twisted Adebisi version of Wonderful Christmastime’, a weird talkbox/vocoder version of ‘Merry Christmas Everyone’, a version of ‘Feliz Navidad’ that sounds more like something the Flaming Lips might do, a deranged version of the Mariah classic ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ and a Daft Punk-esque version of ‘Walking In The Air’.
Vinny has form in making music for ads and such, but that only partly explains this complete work of festive cheer.
Enjoy it or don’t, who knows – just be glad it exists I guess?
Listen on your preferred platform.
Selected Festive Works 2007 – 2025
Side One
1 Christmas Time Is Here Feat Maykay
2 In Dulci Jubilo
3 Wonderful Christmastime
4 Merry Christmas Everyone
Side Two
5 Feliz Navidad
6 Holidays Are Coming
7 All I Want For Christmas Is You
8 Walking In The Air
9 Saviours Day
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
