This highly limited split 7" is Paw Tracks' Yuletide offering for 2008, pooling the talents of Brad Truax (from Home and Jah Division), Antony Hegarty, ex-Mùm star Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir (aka Kria Brekkan), Abby Portner of Rings and Dave Portner from Animal Collective. As you'd probably hope from such a release, this 7" is brimming with pseudo-vintage, festive weirdness, decked out with old-fashioned 78rpm-style sound effects and crazed sleigh bell antics - it's just how you'd imagine Christmas round at the Paw Tracks ranch. 'Be Good To Earth This Season' takes stuttering old vinyl samples and intricately re-structures them into something new and rather beautiful, providing a musical backdrop for Antony and Kristín to warmly intone their goodwill-spreading duet. On the flipside 'Wolfie's Christmas' combines chiming glockenspiel and sleigh bells with bizarre recordings of horses neighing and birds taking flight while Abby Portner imparts her own brand of seasonal cheer. A superior christmas single if ever there was one. - boomcat
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