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Christmas Songs (Bonus Track Version)

Jars of Clay

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Album Review

It's unlikely that this is the holiday album Jars of Clay would have created when they first started asking their record label for the chance. With the band's sound evolving from glossy alternative folk-pop to experimental synth rock, their approach to their first full-length Christmas record evolved as well. Other changes contributed, too. After 12 years, the band fulfilled its contract with Essential Records and parted ways, immediately setting up shop as an indie act under the Nettwerk umbrella. Frontman Dan Haseltine reported that the band had wanted to do a Christmas album ever since 1995's four-song EP Little Drummer Boy, but label execs kept it from materializing. The only limit to their creativity now, it seemed, was deciding how deeply to reach into the repertoire of traditional holiday music and how much original material to infuse. Thankfully, the quartet came up with just the right mix of old and new fare, all thickly coated in textured synth layers and drum loops. The result is a highly nontraditional treatment of holiday themes, though one that will suit fans of the band from almost any era.

Customer Reviews

A Modern Classic

This is a stunningly gorgeous and creative Christmas album. It's been a long time coming and it was worth the wait. Everything from the haunting harmonies to the signature jars acoustic sounds to the orchestration and new electronic elements make this a remarkably enjoyable album. Extremely well crafted.

Brilliant

I picked this album up last year and listened to it about a million times. I have a huge collection of christmas music, and this album is easily in my top three.

Not really so "ho ho" - more like "ho hum"

Let me start by saying that I am a HUGE "Jars of Clay" fan and count them as one of my absolute favorite bands of all time. That's why it totally kills me to say that this album really did not live up to my expectations at all and is probably not worth buying as a complete project. Instead I would recommend that you give a listen through some of the singles and just purchase a couple of tracks. It's not that it was all that bad... it just didn't "wow" me like a lot of their stuff usually does and in truth there is probably better holiday Christmas material here on iTunes that you can spend your money on.

Biography

Formed: 1993 in Greenville, IL

Genre: Inspirational

Years Active: '90s, '00s, '10s

Jars of Clay were the breakout band of the so-called alternative CCM movement of the '90s, scoring an enormous mainstream hit with the debut single "Flood" and enjoying platinum sales. The group's lyrics may have been exclusively Christian, but their acoustic-oriented music fit perfectly into the folky jangle pop wing of alternative rock radio, at the time a rarity on the contemporary Christian music scene. Such success set the stage for breakthroughs by Christian bands like dc Talk and Sixpence...
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