It’s getting dark before 5 p.m. again, but thankfully a new Merge Records holiday compilation has arrived to help lift the gloom. Out digitally this Friday, November 13, Snowed In features a brand-new Tubs song, “I Am an Elf,” as well as Charlotte Cornfield’s take on “Jingle Bells.”
Snowed In is the follow-up to Merge’s 2019 holiday album, You Wish. This year’s festive selections include Dawn Richard’s “On a Night Like This,” Fruit Bats’ “O! Holy Night,” and label newcomer Elanor Moss’s version of Judee Sill’s “Jesus Was a Cross Maker.” The New Pornographers and Superchunk also recorded original songs, “Some Wings” and “Shortest Day of the Year,” the latter of which you can hear below.