Claude says:McCartney II is Paul's strangest solo detour—a synth-pop experiment he recorded alone in 1980 that sounds less like Wings and more like he was channeling Kraftwerk through a haze of marmalade. You've mostly circled back to "Wonderful Christmastime," which has the perverse genius of being both genuinely odd and stubbornly seasonal, the kind of track that lodges itself in your brain whether you want it there or not.