Dean Wareham & Britta & Sonic Boom cover David Berman’s “Snow Is Falling In Manhattan”
Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom will release a holiday album, A Peace of Us, via Carpark Records. With 14 tracks, the LP, is one that’s described as one that “reimagines an eclectic range of holiday songs through their unique musical lens”. For Northern Transmissions, this is the true dream team, covering one of the best.
Ahead of the release, the trio has shared the album’s lead-track, a cover of David Berman’s “Snow Is Falling In Manhattan” which is on its way to becoming a bonafide classic single for this time of year. Wareham says, “David Berman’s Purple Mountains is one of the great albums of this century. We were all shocked when he took his life soon after its release, and I recorded a demo of‘’Snow is Falling in Manhattan’ for a tribute to him. The song is now updated with a new mix and added vocals by Britta and Sonic Boom. It’s such an evocative song about a snowstorm in New York City and contains one of my favorite Berman stanzas ‘songs build little rooms in time / and housed within the song’s design / is the ghost the host has left behind’ — where it feels like Berman is talking to us from the beyond, he is both ghost and host, and I am the guest who sings his lines.”
On Sunday, November 17 Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom will appear at a Bandcamp Listening Party at 2pm PT / 5pm ET / 10pm BST. The album will be streaming and the band members will be available for a Q&A with fans. More information can be found HERE.
Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom
A Peace of Us
Tracklist
Carpark Records
1 Snow Is Falling in Manhattan
2 Pretty Paper
3 Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?
4 Old Toy Trains
5 Snow
6 Silver Snowflakes
7 Stille Nacht
8 You’re All I Want For Christmas
9 Christmas Can’t Be Far Away
10 He’s Coming Home
11 Little Altar Boy
12 If we make it through December
13 Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy
14 Happy Xmas (War is Over)
order A Peace Of Us HERE
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