DEAN & BRITTA / SONIC BOOM
PEACE OF US (EMERALD VINYL) - LP
UPC: 677517017717
Label: CARPARK RECORDS
Format: LP
Release Date: November 22, 2024
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In a season where we all seek comfort, tradition, and a return to a home of sorts, a trio composed of indie music’s foundational members have gifted us A Peace of Us—an album of diverse holiday tunes filtered through their musical imaginations. Dean & Britta, well-known from their work defining a genre with Galaxie 500 and Luna, join Spacemen 3’s Sonic Boom, another bastion of indie’s collective adolescence, to bring to life a collection that draws from early ‘60s pop, garage, country, James Bond soundtracks, Christmas carols, and electronica. Dean Wareham recalls a sentiment from his DJ friend Chris: “You can experience all the emotions of Christmas through music: love and hate, joy and heartache, nostalgia, regret, anticipation, and frustration.”
Their venture into a holiday album was organic, spurred by a few cover tunes over the years, a Christmas special during the pandemic, and finally collaborative sessions between Dean & Britta in L.A. and Sonic Boom in Portugal. The trio all contributed vocals, with guitars by Wareham, bass and keyboards by Phillips, effects, and mixes by Sonic. The result is an album of exploration as well as comfort, “like Bing Crosby...on acid,” Britta adds, the tracklist a reminder that the holidays are complex and tragicomic.
If collaboration is the fuel, peace and mutual understanding is surely the fire, and A Peace of Us has us gathered around it. “Christmas is mostly for children anyway,” says Dean. Sonic adds, “Or the inner child in all of us. Goodwill to all men. Hopes and fears for the year to come. And light in the darkness. Where this festival began.”
TRACK LIST:
A1. Snow Is Falling in Manhattan
A2. Pretty Paper
A3. Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?
A4. Old Toy Trains A5. Snow
A6. Silver Snowflakes
A7. Stille Nacht
B1. You're All I Want For Christmas
B2. Christmas Can't Be Far Away
B3. He's Coming Home
B4. Little Altar Boy
B5. If We Make It Through December
B6. Peace on Earth / Little Drummer Boy
B7. Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
