David Bazan
Dark Sacred Nights
Even after retiring the Pedro The Lion project, Bazan continued his run of Yuletide singles for Suicide Squeeze under his own name. These limited edition 7”s are all long out of print but David Bazan and Suicide Squeeze have chosen ten of the fourteen tracks, remastered the material and collected them on Dark Sacred Night. The festive aspect of the holidays is noticeably absent on Dark Sacred Night. Instead, Bazan focuses more on meditative classics (Silent Night, Away In A Manger), sombre modern holiday songs (Happy Xmas (War Is Over), Long Way Around The Sea) and, in the case of Wish My Kids Were Here, ruminative originals. Throughout the ten tracks, Bazan’s plaintive baritone voice and sparse instrumentation tie the multiple generations and songwriting approaches of these holiday songs into one cohesive melancholic sound.
Tracklist
1. All I Want for Christmas
2. Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
3. Away in a Manger
4. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
5. I Heard the Bells On Christmas Day
6. Jingle Bells
7. Silent Night
8. Long Way Around the Sea
9. O Little Town of Bethlehem
10. Wish My Kids Were Here
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