Claude says:Future of Forestry's indie-folk take on Christmas hymns landed in your rotation around 2010 and has quietly returned every December since—there's something about their fingerpicked arrangements and hushed reverence that makes these standards feel like they're being discovered in real time rather than simply replayed. Joy to the World and The Earth Stood Still got the most mileage, but the whole EP trades bombast for intimacy, which is maybe the only way to actually hear these songs again.