Dean & Britta, the husband-wife duo of Galaxie 500’s Dean Wareham and Luna’s Britta Phillips, are teaming up with Sonic Boom to release a new holiday album. Joint LP, Our peacearrives on November 22 via Carpark. The first preview is a cover of Willie Nelson’s “Pretty Paper” by Britta and Sonic Boom, and you can watch the Lianna Kaiser-directed video for it below.
“It was a Roy Orbison hit in 1963 and it’s a beautiful song, but the lyrics about a man sitting alone on the sidewalk outside a department store selling tapes and paper are sad,” Wareham explained in a statement. “Britta arranged it in our synth-hive style for the Noah Baumbach/Greta Gerwig film. Mistress America“.
Our peace is a 14-track record that brings together a wide range of holiday songs “filtered through their musical imaginations”. It follows Dean & Britta’s 2020 album, Quarantine tapesand Sonic Boom’s collaborative 2022 LP with Panda Bear, Restorewhich has since received dub and mariachi versions.
Read about Restore on the Best Electronic Music of 2022 list and revisit Panda Bear and Sonic Boom’s Wring Joy Out of Terrible Times collaborative album interview. Restore“.
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Our peace:
01 It is snowing in Manhattan
02 Beautiful paper
03 Do you know how to grow Christmas trees?
04 Old toy trains
05 Snow
06 Silver Snowflakes
07 Silent night
08 You’re All I Want For Christmas
09 Christmas can’t be far away
10 He comes home
11 At the small altar
12 If we make it to December
13 Peace on Earth / Little Drummer Boy
14 Merry Christmas (The War Is Over)