DEAN & BRITTA / SONIC BOOM – PEACE OF US (EMERALD VINYL) - LP •

UPC: 677517017717 Label: CARPARK RECORDS Format: LPRelease Date: November 22, 2024In stock items ship within 48 hoursIn a season where we all seek comfort, tradition, and a return to a home of sorts, a trio composed of indie music’s foundational members have gifted us A Peace of Us—an album of diverse holiday tunes filtered through their musical imaginations. Dean & Britta, well-known from their work defining a genre with Galaxie 500 and Luna, join Spacemen 3’s Sonic Boom, another bastion of indie’s collective adolescence, to bring to life a collection that draws from early ‘60s pop, garage, country, James Bond soundtracks, Christmas carols, and electronica. Dean Wareham recalls a sentiment from his DJ friend Chris: “You can experience all the emotions of Christmas through music: love and hate, joy and heartache, nostalgia, regret, anticipation, and frustration.”Their venture into a holiday album was organic, spurred by a few cover tunes over the years, a Christmas special during t