For music lovers everywhere, the season is coming around where we get musicians, young and old, and their whacky and wild, subdued and seductive renditions of holiday songs. From lo-fi to overproduced, you’ve got your pick of the litter. And hopefully another song will be canonized in the Christmas tradition, to look forward to, year after year.

That’s what Dean and Britta, from Galaxy 500 and Luna, and Sonic Boom, from Spacemen 3, offer in their upcoming Christmas album, A Peace Of Us. It is mostly old, perhaps forgotten songs by the likes of Bing Crosby and The Carpenters, with some much more obscure artists, but they start with their rendition of David Berman’s recent release, “Snow Is Falling In Manhattan,” helping to establish it as a season staple, with its story of housing a friend in the snow of the Big Apple, capturing the bitter sweet feeling that much of us feel during this season.

The whole record is filled with heart and soul, like their version of “Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth,” the David Bowie/Bing Crosby song that has become a classic; and much of the album shares that sense for collaboration, with a male-female sound that is inviting and inventive. It’s like an American song book for tried-and-true Christmas songs, like “Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?” and “Pretty Paper” and “Old Toy Trains.” Except of course for the German rendition of “Silent Night,” “Stille Nacht.”

It sounds tinselly and antiquated. Much like Low’s famous Christmas album, there is a feeling of “Silver Snowflakes” about it. It is just as good for your grandpa as for the indie head, interested in what well known indie musicians would pick for their holiday playlist. There are plenty of songs about snow and it brings warmth and cheer to an otherwise cold season. If you’re tired of the same old songs during the Christmas season, this album offers many songs you’ve probably never heard, in stunning, shiny, warbly arrangements. There’s a bit of old time religion (“Little Altar Boy”), there’s a bit of progressive peace seeking (“Happy Xmas (War is Over)”). But mostly it’s just songs that mean something to the artists and will hopefully mean something to you, in their wonderful compilation.

It’s coming out early in the season, so that you can play and replay their signature album throughout the coming month or so. Other Christmas and holiday compilations will have a hard time comparing with this one, with its great pick of songs and its pleasing silvery production.

Pre-order A Peace Of Us by Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom HERE