The hard-to-find, self-titled debut album from Blitzen Trapper contains a Christmas song that is a gentle tumble and a remainder from the Romeo and Juliet days, but it adds in there some sex romping in a car. It’s a frosty morning string of flashes, a boy ticking pebbles off a flame’s thin window to get her attention, and an un-measured take on the way love in the season of gifts and snow and reindeer works us over or works us dry. Shed of most of the countrified air of their typical sound, “Christmas Is Coming Soon,” is a renegade, a careful renegade that’s on the lam. The Oregon band has been working its fingers to the bone all this year – just returning from the UK a week ago – and it has planned a strenuous early part of 2008 before it preps its Sub Pop Records debut. They’ll hit the Noise Pop festival in San Francisco at the end of February, playing a showcase with Fleet Foxes, a band that is sickly great in its own right. A lengthy spring tour follows through the middle of April with the Foxes, bringing them right back here and into our studio. Expect an encore Blitzen Trapper session featuring new songs just after the first of the year.

Christmas is Coming Soon (Blitzen Trapper) [3.23MB] [302 downloads]

Blitzen Trapper Daytrotter Session
Blitzen Trapper
Holocene Records
Fleet Foxes