Merge Holiday Album to Feature Original New Poronographers, Tubs Songs

It’s getting dark before 5 p.m. again; luckily, there’s a new Merge Records holiday compilation to help keep the gloom at bay. Out digitally this Friday, November 13, Snowed In promises such delights as a brand-new Tubs song called “I Am an Elf” and Charlotte Cornfield’s take on “Jingle Bells.” Scroll down for the full track list.

Snowed In is the sequel to Merge’s 2019 holiday album, You Wish. Other chestnuts this go-round include Dawn Richard’s “On a Night Like This,” Fruit Bats’ “O! Holy Night,” and label newbie Elanor Moss doing Judee Sill’s “Jesus Was a Cross Maker.” The New Pornographers and Superchunk also recorded original songs, “Some Wings” and “Shortest Day of the Year,” the latter of which you can hear below.

Snowed In: A Merge Records Holiday Album:
01 Charlotte Cornfield: “Jingle Bells”
02 Case Oats: “Peace on Earth”
03 Telekinesis: “Christmas in Suburbia”
04 Fruit Bats: “O! Holy Night”
05 Mike Krol: “How Could It Be Chrismas?”
06 The Tubs: “I Am an Elf”
07 Elanor Moss: “Jesus Was a Crossmaker”
08 Superchunk: “Shortest Day of the Year”
09 The New Pornographers: “Some Wings”
10 Dawn Richard: “On a Night Like This”
11 Rosali: “The Cherry Tree Carol”

Snowed In: A Merge Records Holiday Album

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