Category: Chill

THE GIFTED CHILDREN - CHRISTMAS, VOLUME 08

12/23/2016

1. Christmas Is The Time To Say I Love You
2. Wonderful Christmas Time
3. December Will Be Magic Again
4. Christmas Was A Friend Of Mine [Ambient Redux]
5. Driving Home For Christmas
6. Thank God It's Christmas
7. Christmas In Hollis
8. Last Christmas

THE GIFTED CHILDREN WEBSITE
THE GIFTED CHILDREN ON FACEBOOK
DOWNLOAD FROM BANDCAMP

Rochester Indies The Gifted Children take some 80s Christmas classics out for a spin. I think they're at their best when completely reimagining the songs as on the Shoegazey and Dream Poppy "Wonderful Christmas Time" and "Christmas In Hollis". Their Loungey Chill "Last Christmas" works well, too. Happy to see someone cover Kate Bush's "December Will Be Magic Again," but I would have liked to see them get a little crazier with it. All in all, not a bad little record to name your price for. Poke around a bit and you'll find Volumes 5 & 7.

0 Comments

SUNNY INTERVALS - LIKE SNOWFLAKES

12/23/2016

0 Comments

The cover art drew me in. I tell people that cover art's important and, every year, we get crap. Now look at this cover art. It's not terribly involved. Just one color, really, light and dark--plus white. But it drew me in.

"Like Snowflakes" is pleasant enough. DIY Indie Pop from London. Sunny Intervals (presumed to be a single individual) has the whisper vocals and bedroom keyboard sound going on. Truthfully, 5 songs of this is a couple too many for me. After a while, you get the feeling of a guy who doesn't want to wake mom and dad. But the two I'd point you to would be the title track, "Like Snowflakes", which I liked a lot, and "New Year's Day", which I liked even more. I think he's onto something with "New Year's Day"...nicely layered, Ambient feel. Anyway, Sunny Interval's "Like Snowflakes" is on Bandcamp. It's there for you to be had.

0 Comments

BODYLINE - MAGICAL ROOFS

12/18/2016

0 Comments

Now this is the kinda stuff I love coming across. I don't even know that it's intended to be Christmas or winter related, but it twinkles like mystical snow on Christmas Eve and that's good enough for me.

Bodyline is a Vaporwave/Chillwave artist, apparently from Italy though releasing music through DMT Tapes FL and Verbatim Consciousness Recordings in Florida. "Magical Roofs" comes from an entire 12-song digital album, "Twinkly". Like all of their music, "Twinkly" is free (if you ever see a "buy" button or shopping cart, just click on it with no fear and it'll take you somewhere to download free).

I'm sure it's a real stretch to say "Twinkly" has anything at all to do with Christmas. But that doesn't stop me. "Magical Roofs" is the track that said Christmas to me more than any of the others--a light combination of twinkle and soul. "Double Glow" is another nice New Agey track. And "Wandering Heart" is an excellent Ambient piece. Grab "Magical Roofs" or the entire set free from Bandcamp. Or don't. But I think you're missing out on something cool and original.

0 Comments

ENGLEWOOD - 8 DAYS OF HANUKKAH

12/17/2016

0 Comments

Well, look, it's just a cover of the great song delivered last year by Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings and Englewood doesn't really do much with it. But Hanukkah is coming up and we've been woefully short on providing tunes for the celebration this year (I'm kinda hoarding them for the eight night celebration since they're a little hard to come by). For all I know, that's Sharon singing and they just tossed in some beats. But it is the second best version of "8 Days of Hanukkah" we've yet heard. Also, it's the second version of "8 Days of Hanukkah" we've yet heard. Unless you count the Dap Kings' instrumental version, in which case this is the third best version we've yet heard. And it's free!

Actually, the Englewood band from Wisconsin has an entire 7-song "Christmas Special" EP available as a free download from Bandcamp and the remaining mix of Hip Hop, Trap, and Chill Jazz is probably far more worthy of your download. Just sayin'. But we wanted a Hanukkah free download to offer you, so here it is.

0 Comments

MISHELLA - XMAS VIBES

12/6/2016

0 Comments

Every year, there seems to be at least one track like this that hits me the right way at the right time. An Electronic soundscape that's not trying to catch anyone's attention...just happy to be. And I consider my desire to post such things as a feature, not a bug. I have no idea who Mishella is or where she's from. Here's what we know. "Spontaneous Christmas chill vibe track I made in like 2 dayz". Well, alright then. It's one of the things I love about Christmas music. It comes in all sizes and shapes, from places expected and unexpected, from the famous and the unknown, with high expectations and with no expectations. And someone somewhere (in this case, me) is going to like it. "Xmas Vibes" is available as a free download from Soundcloud..you know, if it happens to hit you the right way at the right time.

0 Comments

The FREE List

Here we hope to direct you to some of the Christmas music on the web that can be yours absolutely free. We will not direct you to mp3 or sharity sites, here, but only to artist sites, label sites, and other authorized and unquestionably legal locations.

THE GIFTED CHILDREN - CHRISTMAS, VOLUME 08

SUNNY INTERVALS - LIKE SNOWFLAKES

BODYLINE - MAGICAL ROOFS

ENGLEWOOD - 8 DAYS OF HANUKKAH

MISHELLA - XMAS VIBES

The FREE List

Archives

Categories