Review: Merry Christmas Anyway by Hearts of Animals
Most Christmas albums are a waste of digital recording space used to massacre classics (looking at you Bon Jovi) or awkwardly cash in by gruesomely sewing holiday trappings on otherwise standard band fare (I see you Erasure). Hearts of Animals has done what few other bands have managed to accomplish. They actually wrote a regular album that just happens to be about Christmas, and it is exactly the disaffected scream of despair to top of 2020. Recorded remotely by the individual members over Zoom in August, Merry Christmas Anyway is a potent combination of the band’s trademark pop punk pep ...
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