Will my Christmas-album dreams never stop coming true? Billy Idol album. Sufjan Stevens long player. Now a bunch of bands have got together to form a Crimbo 'supergroup' for a good cause, and a rendition of 'The Twelve Days Of Christmas'. Calling themselves The Joseph & Mary Chain, the group comprising The Futureheads, Kathryn Williams, Field Music and The Golden Virgins, will appear on compilation LP 'It's Not Like Christmas', which is to be sold in aid of homeless/housing charity Shelter.
The album, a combination of original tracks and slightly warped covers of Christmas classics, is on sale now at iTunes, and gets a physical release on 13 Dec. It's full of tracks by some CMU endorsed music acts, so what are you waiting for? Here's the tracklisting:
Duels - Do You Hear What I Hear?
Envelopes - Pink Christmas
Ingo Star Cruiser Ft. Gaby Froden - Just Like Christmas
Iain Archer - Little Drummer Boy (Black Forest Version)
Duke Special & David Ford - Of Whoredom & Falconry
El Perro Del Mar - Oh! What A Christmas
The Late Greats - Sleigh Ride
Amusement Parks On Fire Ft Leila Moss - The Day It Snowed
Electric Soft Parade - The Friday Before Christmas
David Ford - Have Yourself A Bitter Little Christmas
747s - Blue Christmas
Swimming - In Dulci Jubilo
Minuteman - Last Christmas
Emmy The Great ft. Lightspeed Champion - Christmas In Prison
The Joseph & Mary Chain - The Twelve Days Of Christmas
Amazing Pilots - White Christmas
Sketches For Albinos - Let It Snow
Matt Harding - Purple Snowflakes