Dean & Britta and Sonic Boom Announce Holiday Album, Share Video for New Song

Dean & Britta, the husband-and-wife duo of Galaxie 500’s Dean Wareham and Luna’s Britta Phillips, are teaming up with Sonic Boom to release a new holiday album. The collaborative LP, A Peace of Us, arrives November 22 via Carpark. The first preview is a cover of Willie Nelson’s “Pretty Paper,” performed by Britta and Sonic Boom, and you can watch the Leanna Kaiser–directed video for it below.

“This was a hit for Roy Orbison in 1963 and it’s a pretty song, but the lyrics, about a man who sits alone on the sidewalk outside a department store selling ribbons and paper, are sad,” explained Wareham in a statement. “Britta arranged this in the style of our synth-heavy score for the Noah Baumbach / Greta Gerwig film Mistress America.”

A Peace of Us is a 14-song record compiling a wide range of holiday songs “filtered through their musical imaginations.” It follows Dean & Britta’s 2020 album, Quarantine Tapes, and Sonic Boom’s collaborative 2022 LP with Panda Bear, Reset, which has since gotten dub and mariachi versions.

Read about Reset on the list “The Best Electronic Music of 2022” and revisit the interview “Panda Bear and Sonic Boom Wring Joy Out of Terrible Times on Their Collaborative Album Reset.”

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A Peace of Us:

01 Snow Is Falling in Manhattan
02 Pretty Paper
03 Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?
04 Old Toy Trains
05 Snow
06 Silver Snowflakes
07 Stille Nacht
08 You’re All I Want for Christmas
09 Christmas Can’t Be Far Away
10 He’s Coming Home
11 Little Altar Boy
12 If We Make It Through December
13 Peace on Earth / Little Drummer Boy
14 Happy Xmas (War Is Over)