I quite like holiday-related songs. I enjoyed Lightspeed Champion’s Garageband Xmas E.P and I still listen to Emmy the Great’s Christmas in Prison. These days, people actually send me things which is brilliant and so I’ve had a couple of winterry songs sent to me. Lovely. Very much enjoying all this Christmas spirt.
Snowing in Seattle
I found this in my inbox this morning and it came to my suprise that I actually saw the very end of their set when they were supporting Go:Audio in the UK only a few weeks ago. This is highly exciting, that I’m at a stage where bands I’ve actually seen send me things.
Sherwood are an American fourpiece who cite the Beach Boys as one of their major influences. Beach Boys? More associated with summer really aren’t they? (Yeah yeah, I know, Little Saint Nick, but still…they’re a summer band). It’s all quite cheerful sounding stuff though even if I do find sleigh bell introductions ever so slightly nauseating! Once you get past the sleigh bells, it’s an enjoyable track although if you head over to their website you can hear what I personally think are better efforts from them.
They’re the sort of band you can imagine fitting in well on the soundtrack to American teen dramas such as The OC or One Tree Hill alongside bands like Nada Surf and Jack’s Mannequin, you can hear definite similarities between them. They plan to have a new album out in summer and if you enjoy this track I’d say it’s almost certainly worth hunting down some more of their work.
Happy holidays everybody!
