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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
MP3 It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like a Parenthetical Girls' Christmas
Posted by Ezra Ace Caraeff on Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 7:47 AM
- Patrick Kehoe
During his reign here at this very paper, Parenthetical Girls' frontman Zac Pennington was our esteemed expert on all things Christmas music. His vast holiday music library wasn't just limited to hits by Bowie and Bing, he was the kind soul that introduced me to Eazy-E's wholesome classic "Merry Muthafuckin' X-Mas," plus T.Rex's "Christmas Bop" ("Christmas time is drawing near/Get out your silk jeans and your space shoes").
That being the case, it's not a surprise that the Parenthetical Girls are offering up their very own holiday seven-inch, "The Christmas Creep."
"Thank God It's Not Christmas"—Inspired by two discreet stone classics from the Mael's bloated back catalogue, our rendition of Kimono My House's resolutely anti-holiday anthem attempts to shoehorn the song into the style latter-day Sparks records—specifically, 1983's In Outer Space. We didn't say it was a good idea."Flowers For Albion"—A cheery original about the Christmas Blitz of 1940.
Furthermore, we're pressing an extremely limited run of 7"s for the occasion this year, primarily as Christmas gifts for our friends and family (surprise, everyone!)—but we've decided to release a scant number of them publicly (150, specifically) to help defray some of the production costs. You're more than welcome to just download the tracks above for free of course, but in the event that you might want to own a little piece of the magic, here's the deal: The record will be housed in a fancy, letter-pressed sleeve handprinted by Zac, and will shipped just as soon as we get the vinyl back from the plant—on approximately December 15th... (hopefully) just in time for Christmas.
LISTEN:
Parenthetical Girls - "Thank God It's Not Christmas"
You can get all the ordering info here. Personally, I'm pick up this record and a copy of Michael McDonald's new holiday album, This Christmas. His beard his like a majestic bed of freshly fallen snow on Christmas morning.
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