Turn it up! Let the music thunder! Don't turn it down!

The music on the wall-to-wall Christmas stations often skews dirge-y. There are any number of reasons for that, I suppose. Pop artists straining to be taken se-e-e-e-ew seriously ranks high up there. Jesus time. Gotta be reverent. What's the shortcut to getting there? Drag the tempo down to somewhere between snailish and glacial!

  

How can you tell if you're taking it too slow? If you can't complete a single phrase without taking a breath; if the pace is so far removed from speech-level-speed that intelligibility suffers... you've overdone it.

You know who hasn't overdone it, though? DIY power-pop multi-instrumentalist indie darlings Walk Off The Earth. This track is from their iTunes Session, and if you ask me, deserves to be as deeply entrenched in the Yuletide canon as Perry Como.  

Little Drummer Boy