Ghostly Trio - Christmas With The Ghostly Trio

Decaying no-wave renditions of Christmas classics, produced by Victor De Lorenzo from Violent Femmes. A Perfect record for Grinch-kind of people, like myself. Eerie Lynchian 1980's lecture of American 1950's shinny optimism. Sealed copy!

I always had a thing for the kind of bizarre renditions of Christmas motives in 1980's US cultural productions. Anything Christmas-related seems to be so tightly connected with US soft power in general, that these cultural artefacts always end up being scrutinized as reflective objects about Reaganism or US imperialism, in one way or another - from Gremlins to The Nightmare Before Christmas via Die Hard.

Christmas With The Ghostly Trio is more obviously self-conscious than the aforementioned films, but I can't help but think that, just like Dr. Seuss's Grinch, the LP  is de facto yet another celebration of Christmas, and thus, of the American Spirit. An ironic, highly critical celebration, but a celebration nonetheless, exacerbated, precisely, by that  critical distance it creates with its object.  Aren't The Simpsons and South Park two of the most grandiose and long-lasting odes to the US génie national of the past 40 years? 

Anyway, this album has a lot to do with these TV satyres, ideologically and aesthetically speaking. It's fun and dreadful, jolly and gritty at the same time, like Tim Burton's Beetlejuice or Mars Attacks! and it sometimes feels like being trapped in a Sponge Bob Squarepants' Christmas special (not a bad thing, in my opinion!)... Amazing artwork too! (M/M sealed copy).

Tracklist

1. We Wish
2. Three Kings
3. Little Town Polka
4. Joy
   
5. Little Drummer Dude
6. Good King
7. O Time Bomb
8. White X-mas
9. Silent Night
10. God Rest Ye
11. Leön
12. Angels
13. Jingle Bells