Here Are the Canadian Artists Who Released Holiday Songs This Year │ Exclaim!

If you've been out in public lately, it's no secret that Christmas is just around the corner. It's everywhere you look, hear, smell, and feel: the cold wind hitting you right into your kisser, the smell of pine stronger than car air freshener, the repeated phrase “All I want for Christmas is you,” and the flickering lights that turn into a bright spot if you have astigmatism like me.

Whether you're celebrating or not, several Canadian artists are hoping to help bring some holiday magic to you this season with their holiday releases. From Christmas classics, you can never have too much Wham! covers to original material, here are some of the homegrown talents who have some new holly-jolly in store for you this year.

Jill Barber released her first full-length holiday album (if this sounds familiar, she released series of favorite holidays last year as a bonus gift after her sophomore French record. BIS!), Bye Tim Baker increased its holiday record in 2024, Full rainbow of lightwith three new songs. FULLThe ongoing “Pretty Girl Era” now also includes a rather cheeky version of “Jingle Bell Rock” that the Plastics would surely approve of.

Transplant in Nashville Taylor Janzen will be home in Winnipeg for Christmas, so naturally she delivered a version of the iconic tune first popularized by Bing Crosby. Meanwhile, Thunder Bay Team “Honest Heart” took over queen of christmas herself, and Sofia Kamara presents his interpretation of Coldplay's “Christmas Lights”.

Along with recent New Faves graduates including Satya, Jake Vaadeland And sunday clubold faithful melancholy troubadour and manganese has offered up the aptly titled “Christmas Song,” and it’s exactly that. Elsewhere, a spin-off of Tokyo Police Club Girlfriend material are Looking forward to the holidays! on their Christmas album, while Alanis Morissette there is a stunning rendition of “Ave Maria”. And Pelgag's Claw sounds uncharacteristically subdued in the piano ballad version of Robert Charlebois's French-language song “Marie-Noël.”

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