Listen To This: "How Many Sleeps 'til Christmas?"

A lot of the Christmas songs I've been posting or mentioning have tended toward the silly, goofy, and light.

This song is not any of those.

But I like it nonetheless. It's from the Irish band The Speks, a band whose debut album Sing-Along Songs from Glasses Island I like and really should've mentioned here by now and don't really have a reason for not doing so. Perhaps I'd heard waaay too much Irish music on a "Prairie Home Companion" episode about the time I got their disk. Anyway, they typically do traditional kids songs with an Irish music twist (that's the cover to their debut Sing-Along Songs from Glasses Island at top), but this song is a little different from most of their music. It's a modern take on a Christmas song that features a children's choir from County Clare in Ireland. It teeters on the edge of sappy, but doesn't fall over the edge.

Download the song here. A video and more free songs after the jump.
The Speks have a number of other free (non-Christmas-related) downloads and streams from their album available here.

The Speks - "Miss Molly Had a Dolly" [YouTube]