Every year I present some new Christmas songs in a post, and this year’s no exception. If you’d like to check out the songs from earlier years you can check them out here: 2008, 2009 and 2010.

Have a wonderful Christmas!

First up is ad dios. They have produced Christmas songs every year since a few years back, and now finally they have made a collection of these, together with new ones, on the album “Season of Tranquillity”. Here’s the opening track:
In the Bleak Midwinter

I wrote about Slottet and their new EP “Servants” a couple of weeks ago. Here’s their Christmas contribution:
A Cold Christmas

The Higher Elevations released their Christmas song in 2006, but since I haven’t presented it before, I thought it would fit perfectly in today’s post:
All These Winter Nights

Acid House Kings with their new Christmas single:
(I’m In) A Chorus Line 

Finally a contribution from Skånske Arne & Jonny Spöge who with “Kanske tomten har Facebook” (“Maybe Santa has Facebook”) finish a productive year with this follow-up to their debut singel “Gula lådan“:
Kanske tomten har Facebook

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Edit 20/12 2011 – added the new Christmas single from Acid House Kings

Slottet released their new EP “Servants” last month. Besides being available on Spotify the EP was also released on casette tape. It’s not the first time I’ve encountered cassette tapes this Autumn, so I think I can say that there is sort of a cassette revival going on.

And the EP  is a quite pleasant acquaintance. The first three tracks contain a rather minimalistic electronica accompanying good indie pop-vibing melodies and close vocals by Marcus Wahlström, while the finishing two songs change lane somewhat in that “Please” lets the guitars come up front and normal drums is used, and “Vanity”, the last song, is built upon an acoustic guitar.

They came up with the band name Slottet (The Castle) a summer’s night one and a half year ago. They were trying to invent a name by associating with things they saw in the room, when suddenly, Yin Fai Chan, the band’s keyboard player, saw the cover of Hayao Miyazaki’s movie “Howl’s Moving Castle” and threw out the word “Slottet”. According to Marcus Wahlström, this led to a kind of eureka moment for the band, and the name was set.

You can follow Slottet on their Facebook page. Here’s the first song on “Servants”

Agnostic Nightmare