December 19, 2025December 19, 2025

Festive Songs Reviewed

As we enter the festive period let me share a few tracks and EPs from the Fediverse I’ve got on my Christmas playlist. They include pieces that happily embrace the spirit of the season, to others that have a bit more of a leftfield, darker take on it.

Roberta Fidora (@RobertaFidora) recently released Christmas Trees, which is an original, catchy, danceable, synthpop, electroclash poke at the capitalism and stress of Christmas. “…shove them up your pa rum pum pum pum” sums up the mood in this dark humoured song, which despite (or because of) its attitude is a track that makes me smile.

Futzle’s (@futzle) Weeping Melaleuca is a lovely mellow piano and voice based song (with guitar and strings making an appearance later on). It reminds me of classic 1970s singer songwriters. Such a gentle beautiful tune. Pass me a double snowball with ice please, as I chill out.

Lorenzo Miniero (@lminiero) released A Very Metal Axemas in 2024. This EP of 7 songs uses classic Christmas songs as a starting point and gives them a darker, metal doomed interpretation with twisted titles such as Frosty the Slowdeath, Carol of the Hells, and Ghast Christmas. I imagine everyone’s favourite dark yuletide spirit, Krampus, is on board with this.

And finally, Sarah Wallin Huff’s (@sjwallin) Christmas Wayfarer, is an orchestral composition which again adapts traditional Christmas carols (I Saw Three Ships, O Come All Ye Faithful, Coventry Carol, O Holy Night, and Hark the Herald Angels Sing) to build this beautiful, flowing piece of dramatic classical music.