Jaill’s Vincent Kircher and Lady Cannon’s Martha Cannon are two of the city’s most individualistic songwriters, fascinating thinkers who pour their anxieties into every brutally honest, bitingly witty song. After years of piloting their own projects, the two have formed a new group together called L’Resorts, which they debuted today in a typically unorthodox fashion: with a Christmas EP called Christmas is a Time For Dreaming.
That might not sound like something you need in your life—'tis the season for holiday music with nothing original to say about the holidays—but thankfully L’Resorts’ attitude toward Christmas is more Charlie Brown than Frank Capra, and their sound is a true novelty: a tropical-tinged throwback to the peppy, innocent vocal pop records of the 1960s. It's the sound of pure comfort, though it does little to take the wistful sting out of these four originals. “Christmas Tree, o’ Christmas Tree, you’re too much like me/Strangled by lights too bright and covered in debris,” they sing sweetly. And on the title track they drop this nugget: “Christmas is a time for screaming/Into a pillow that nothing has meaning.”
The album is streaming on Bandcamp and available for pay-whatever download, with all proceeds going to the Hunger Task Force. The group will perform on Saturday, Dec. 22, at Boone and Crockett, on an absolutely loaded bill as part of Mark Waldoch and Testa Rosa's annual holiday show.
