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Oct 31, 2013Rather than subverting culture, the band goes one step further, subverting the expectations of listeners by performing the songs without irony. Most surprising, however, is how well these songs work with Bad Religion's driving and melodic style and Greg Graffin's distinctive voice.
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Oct 31, 2013This EP might be a surprise to some, but it is in keeping with the puckish spirit that has underpinned the quintet's nearly 35 years together.
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Dec 19, 2013Brett Gurewitz’s buzzsaw guitars sound cool, but the blend of punk rock and carols turns out to be too predictable, so you know whether you need to hear this one even without hearing it.
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Classic Rock MagazineJan 2, 2014There's a delicious, deliberate irony to this atheist band putting their own 100mph spin on carols. [Jan 2014, p.115]
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Dec 2, 2013All songs are played relatively straight--nary a jingle bell in earshot--which is a good choice, as it offsets the devotional aspects of more traditional carols like ‘O Come All Ye Faithful’ and ‘Angels We Have Heard On High’.
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Kerrang!Nov 20, 2013Bad Religion are still capable of holding on to their defiantly secular edge. [9 Nov 2013, p.53]
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Oct 31, 2013The album is definitely tongue-in-cheek but suggests a real affection for these standards, putting Bad Religion in a long line of acts that find religion interesting even if they don't believe in it for a second.
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MagnetDec 18, 2013Despite valiant efforts at punking up "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" and "White Christmas," this is starting to sound like a bad joke. [No. 105, p.52]
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Dec 30, 2013The nine tracks here turn to the old-school and the classic, making the carols you sung at school into something better suited to a night doing shots of eggnog in Fat Mike’s shed.
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Nov 21, 2013Bad Religion’s Christmas album is one of the most unusual in recent memory.
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Oct 31, 2013It’s mostly Bad Religion just doing their bone-punks-n-harmony thing, allowing us to acknowledge the music behind “Angels We Have Heard on High” wouldn’t be all that out of place on New Maps of Hell.
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Nov 14, 2013Christmas Songs is a fun enough, but ultimately non-essential piece of the Bad Religion canon.
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Dec 16, 2013As a Bad Religion record, it’s certainly not gold and you won’t be demanding myrrh.
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Nov 4, 2013A stinging reprise of ’93’s ‘American Jesus’ serves as a timely reminder that these perennial bastions of articulate dissent haven’t gone soft on us quite yet.
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Dec 12, 2013It's very much a lump of coal in the stocking.
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May 21, 2014A very bad album, avoid it at all costs. If you're a big fan of this band, I advise to steer clear of it because you'll lose almost all hope for it..