Christmas 1979

Wild Billy Childish channels raw garage rock and punk energy into yuletide chaos on this Damaged Goods release, transforming Christmas into a bristling, three-chord assault. The Musicians of the British Empire strip holiday sentiment to its skeletal core, all distorted guitars and sneering vocals that sound less like festive cheer and more like a basement blowout. A genuinely odd artifact from 1979 that proves the season’s most interesting records come from the margins.