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Short notes, where we write short notes on notable Christmas songs, quick and easy: 

Not a lot of reggae this season, but The Intercepteurs from Salisbury, UK, made this sweet, bouncy EP released in August. With covers and originals like this melancholy rocker:
We posted Frog's Christmas drinking song last year, this year they wrote a proper seasonal song. But Frog being Frog, 'proper' is kinda offbeat:
This is SO cool. Popular Müzak = Popular Music, the duo from Los Angeles consisting of Prudence Rees-Lee and Zac Pennington. Yep, he of Parentethical Girls. Makers of THIS great Christmas album. Under the Popular Müzak flag Pru & Zac make instrumental tracks, originals and covers, 'incidental music for abandoned department stores.' Made with mostly vintage synths, it sounds like public service announcement-music gone astray. GOOD STUFF:
Probably one of the most Christmassy choir singalongs is the ole falalalalalala. Mariya May has a lot of those, in this heavily bell'ed track:
Connor Jump isn't the biggest Christmas fan on earth, to put it mildly. But hey, it did inspire him to write this wild 'Ordinary Christmas Song'. Punk it away Connor!
Writing her very first Christmas song was a goal for Sophie Braunstein, singer songwriter from Los Angeles, this year. And so she did. Disguised in a damn well-sung song, there turns out to be quite a bit of misery hidden beneath this jolly Christmas atmosphere. Love to you, Sophie Marie!