Relient K has produced an excellent Christmas album in, Let Snow Baby, Let It Reindeer.

Traditional Christmas songs such as, We Wish You A Merry Christmas, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, Deck The Halls, and multiple others receive a “pop-punk” makeover Relient K style, aka, fast sharp riffs, and the falsetto perfection of front man and vocalist Matthew Thiessen.

Perhaps the best of these is the mostly piano played medley of Silent Night/Away In A Manger. This soft and melodic rendition of these two Christmas classics exemplifies the band’s Christian beliefs, and offer great additions to the myriad of previous versions of the songs.

In The 12 Days Of Christmas Thiessen quips, “What’s a partridge? What’s a pear tree? I don’t know so please don’t ask me but I can bet those are terrible gifts to get” true to the joking and clever word play to which earlier students of Relient K are accustomed.

Though the majority of the album consists of traditional yule tide tunes Relient K adds a few originals to the mix. The song, In Like A Lion (Always Winter) offers a lyrical description of the land of Narnia from the children’s book and movie, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, where it’s “always winter but never Christmas.”

And Merry Christmas, Here’s To Many More illustrates the feeling of being back home for Christmas after a long and difficult year away. Back home to share the holidays with friends and loved ones.

If you’re looking for some good Christmas tunes to enjoy in preparation for the big day, check out Let It Snow Baby, Let It Reindeer, you won’t be disappointed.

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