It’s a skeleton, and a broken, incomplete one at that - less song than confessional. “Wish My Kids Were Here” is the A side of this seven-inch single, the seventh in an annual holiday series for David Bazan, who has spoken openly of his struggles with Christianity. 14 at the Metropolitan Museum’s Medieval Sculpture Hall information: .)ĭAVID BAZAN: ‘WISH MY KIDS WERE HERE’ (Suicide Squeeze, $5.99).Ĭhristmas is a day to celebrate closeness and also a day to wrestle with consequences. (The group will perform a Christmas-related concert at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. The record presents triadic harmonies and the group’s immaculate handling of art-song polyphony, and then the song itself, sung by only one of the singers - Marsha Genensky - in Kentucky Appalachian style. Anonymous 4 has gone about it in wide focus: It includes medieval English and Irish precedents to the carol, and related American songs rooted in British caroling. Intelligently and responsibly, the American a cappella group Anonymous 4 has built an album around one 15th-century English song, “The Cherry Tree Carol,” on the subject of Joseph, Mary and the miracle pregnancy. Here, the pop and jazz critics of The New York Times look for meaning, and hidden presents, in this year’s crop of holiday releases.ĪNONYMOUS 4: ‘THE CHERRY TREE: SONGS, CAROLS & BALLADS FOR CHRISTMAS’ (Harmonia Mundi, $19.98). Or even more rarely, something not thrilling, but bracing not all holiday experiences are cheerful. And also like gifts, the ones worth receiving and embracing are those that in spite of the familiar structure, find new ways to deliver old thrills. Grinch Dr.Like gifts themselves, Christmas albums shouldn’t be obligations, though they all too often are.
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