Needles & Grooves

If you like Christmas music at all, theirs is essential.

If you'd like to wander down a completely different Alan Sparhawk path, this is another of his projects...

They have never made a bad album. Things We Lost In The Fire, The Great Destroyer, Long Division, Trust, Secret Names, etc… are some of my faves. Kranky put out some nice AAA reissues of some but those are getting a bit tougher to find unfortunately.