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.
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Enjoy it or don’t, who knows – just be glad it exists I guess?
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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
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