Space, Christmas Eve, Carrots and Kisses

CAGG is also at your service from time to time for lovers of (alt.)country and folk or singer-songwriter music. For example, scroll through these lists of country posts and folk posts that have appeared on the blog in recent years. 
And this year too, there have already been a few brand new noteworthy releases from those genres.  

Brothers Rob and Don Mathews and Erik Anderson are country-Americana band The Storm Windows from Greenwich, America and they were on a country space trip with Santa this year to spread the spirit of Christmas throughout the Universe. 
More info at their Insta. 

By the way: Christmas and space have already been discussed extensively in three major thematic posts a few years ago.
Click here for space part 1, part 2, and part 3.

And here's another one by The Storm Windows, an atmospheric live recording of an earlier (2023) Christmas track.

You might know Parisienne ALIE from her A-Ha cover Take On Me, but she's much more than that. From her bio: "Influenced by artists such as Clairo, Phoebe Bridgers, and Big Thief, she enjoys exploring diverse genres and sounds, blending elements of pop rock, surf rock, and folk." Let's add Christmas to that. A truely great, mesmerizing track. 
More info at her Insta. 

Santa's Reindeer (Ate My Carrot) by 2nd Magpie Project was the result of a challenge to write a Christmas song featuring reindeer and a carrot. No shit. But the result is this heartaching seasonal reflection on family, love and loss packed in a very strong folky singer-songwriter a-like track. 
More info at the 2nd Magpie Project Insta. 

The Muster Point Project ("Making indie pop rock music at the foot of the Canadian Rockies and the Chilean Andes") is responsible for this existential question: What do you really want for Christmas? You better listen to get the answer. 
More info at their Insta.