Dean & Britta, the husband-and-wife duo of Galaxie 500’s Dean Wareham and Luna’s Britta Phillips, are teaming up with Sonic Boom to launch a brand new vacation album. The collaborative LP, A Peace of Us, arrives November 22 through Carpark. The primary preview is a canopy of Willie Nelson’s “Fairly Paper,” carried out by Britta and Sonic Increase, and you may watch the Leanna Kaiser–directed video for it beneath.
“This was successful for Roy Orbison in 1963 and it’s a reasonably music, however the lyrics, a few man who sits alone on the sidewalk exterior a division retailer promoting ribbons and paper, are unhappy,” defined Wareham in an announcement. “Britta organized this within the type of our synth-heavy rating for the Noah Baumbach / Greta Gerwig movie Mistress America.”
A Peace of Us is a 14-song report compiling a variety of vacation songs “filtered by means of their musical imaginations.” It follows Dean & Britta’s 2020 album, Quarantine Tapes, and Sonic Increase’s collaborative 2022 LP with Panda Bear, Reset, which has since gotten dub and mariachi variations.
Examine Reset on the record “The Best Electronic Music of 2022” and revisit the interview “Panda Bear and Sonic Boom Wring Joy Out of Terrible Times on Their Collaborative Album Reset.”
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A Peace of Us:
01 Snow Is Falling in Manhattan
02 Fairly Paper
03 Do You Know How Christmas Timber Are Grown?
04 Previous Toy Trains
05 Snow
06 Silver Snowflakes
07 Stille Nacht
08 You’re All I Need for Christmas
09 Christmas Can’t Be Far Away
10 He’s Coming House
11 Little Altar Boy
12 If We Make It By way of December
13 Peace on Earth / Little Drummer Boy
14 Joyful Xmas (Battle Is Over)
