The Raveonettes - Wishing You A Rave Christmas

The third and final of The Raveonettes' 2008 digital EPs with actual new songs has a Christmas theme, which sort of plays into the feel of the record without changing the band's identity. A bit surprisingly it might be my favorite of the the three, although they're generally pretty close and I don't distinguish them that much. "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" is a cover of an old Darlene Love song you might have heard, and it's quite a good one, with a heavy bass beat and eerie synth part giving it its own identity with the band. "Come On Santa" is one of their more upbeat numbers and shows a bit of a different side. "Christmas Ghosts and "Christmas In Cleveland" are back to the more mellow, haunting style, and are perfectly fine in their own right. I downloaded from Amazon so it came with an extra track, "Forever In Your Arms", which as far as I can tell was originally a bonus track on Lust Lust Lust exclusive to Australia, and has nothing to do with Christmas, but ain't half bad. So, will I actually get any full albums at this point? Eh, maybe some time.