The beats bang, and the writing is ace, though the sexual forwardness of lead single “Christmas Prayer” threw the church community for a loop. His interest in gospel bleeds into his trap productions, and with this winter’s Greatest Gift, in collaboration with pastor, performer, and reality-TV personality Deitrick Haddon, Zay feeds trap values back to gospel. This young Canadian effortlessly uses the sounds of country’s grandest voices from generations past to make a soundtrack for the lonesome landscaped prairies of Canada a google earth of pedal steel and harmonica and a throwback voice that. Reissues and other older material, EPs, live albums, holiday albums, greatest hits albums, multi-artist soundtracks, and other compilations are excluded from the above lists. Colter Wall Songs of the Plains A 23-year-old who sounds like a 63-year-old aint necessarily a bad thing for an album titled Songs of the Plains. Zaytoven is the architect of Atlanta rap and R&B gems like Gucci Mane’s “Bricks” and Usher’s “Papers” and the music director of his local church on the weekends. Albums released between Januand Decemwith 7 or more reviews (15 or more for the first chart) in Metacritics database were eligible for inclusion. L.A.-based punk/pop duo The Dollyrots have released a few Christmas. Zaytoven and Deitrick Haddon, Greatest Gift Gwen Stefani re-released last year’s Christmas album, You Make It Feel Like Christmas, with a few bonus tracks including the original tune Cheer for the Elves and her take on Feliz Navidad: Gwen Stefani - Feliz Navidad (Audio) ft.
15 reviews) 1 Noname 93 Room 25 (self-released) 2 Robyn 89 Honey (Interscope) 3 Christine and the Queens 89 Chris (Because/Universal) 4 Kacey Musgraves 89 Golden Hour (MCA) 5 Idles 88 Joy As an Act of Resistance (Partisan) 6 Janelle Mone 87 Dirty. This year, Sufjan’s lovely, plaintive “Lonely Man of Winter” finally sees release, backed with Duffy’s stately “Every Day Is Christmas” and a twee, folktronic 2018 “Lonely Man” remix. The 40 best-reviewed albums of 2018 (min. Writer and director Alec Duffy didn’t leak the song he got when he won instead he held private listening events for fans. (That’s five times as far as his 50 States project ever got.) “Lonely Man of Winter” was written in 2007 for the “Great Sufjan Song Xmas Xchange,” a peculiar contest where fans submitted an original holiday composition to Stevens’s Asthmatic Kitty Records, and a winner was gifted rights to an unreleased Sufjan Christmas song in exchange. The man released ten Christmas-themed EPs in six years. With all due respect to Richard of Aldovia, Sufjan Stevens is our one, true Christmas prince.