Attendant - Roll on May (Misery Christmas)
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🗓️ 21 December 2021
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Attendant - "Roll On May (Misery Christmas)," a 2021 self-released single.
This week, we are continuing a long-held tradition of featuring Christmas-themed songs selected by Brian Foss, host of KEXP’s punk show Sonic Reducer. Brian has been doing a punk rock Christmas special every year since 2004 and has been a Christmas Day on-air DJ since 2012. He will be hosting his non-traditional Christmas broadcast from noon to 6pm on Saturday, December 25th and then will be back on air later that night for Punk Rock Xmess 2021 at 9pm. No standards are played, only original X-Mess songs, most with a humorous bent.
UK grunge-punk duo Attendant have thrown their hats in the heartbreak Christmas song ring this year with “Roll On May (Misery Christmas).” It’s a near-universal adult trait to feel a spot of loneliness during the holidays but what does one do when they just want to revel in the melodrama of their misery during the jolliest time of the year? Backed by customary twinkling bells and some very non-traditional heavy guitar strums, frontman Andy Walker addresses this idea. “The celebrations never end/ But I don’t want to see my friends/ They’ll force me to have fun/ When I just want someone to hold me near/ This time of year/ Cause I need you but you’re not here this Christmas.”
The single follows Attendant’s debut EP, Unreality, released in early 2021. Watch the video for “Doomscroller” at the link below.
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| 0:00.0 | Bind out by the fireside, the season raging all around me, I don't talk on aimless walks |
| 0:20.5 | I'd rather be a earnest Christmas day, a grown-up man, a grown-up man, a grown-up man |
| 0:41.9 | When you're spent an hour of a fed, you'll find me tucked up here in bed, this whole thing |
| 0:54.7 | leaves me numb, so wake me when it's done, the celebrations never rampant, I don't want |
| 1:01.2 | to see my friends, they'll force me to have fun, when I just want someone to hold me there |
| 1:08.8 | This time of year, because I need you, but you'll not hear this Christmas |
| 1:14.5 | This rain won't go, I'm standing hard |
| 1:25.2 | So when you're spent an hour of a fed, you'll find me tucked up here in bed, this whole thing |
| 1:30.3 | leaves me numb, just wake me when it's done, the celebrations never rampant, I don't |
| 1:36.6 | want to see my friends, they'll force me to have fun, when I just want someone to hold me there |
| 1:44.2 | This time of year, because I need you, but you'll not hear this Christmas |
| 2:06.6 | Drunken by the fireside, the stench of alcohol, and upon me idle hands, I can't |
| 2:29.0 | So when you're spent an hour of a fed, you'll find me tucked up here in bed, this whole thing |
| 2:54.2 | leaves me numb, so wake me when it's done, the celebrations never rampant, I don't |
| 3:19.1 | want to see my friends, they'll force me to have fun, when I just want someone to hold me there |
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