Low’s “Santa’s Coming Over”: most disturbing Christmas music video of the year

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I am not a fan of Christmas music, as this countdown from last year may illustrate. But I am a fan of weird mormon “slowcore” types Low. They did a splendid mini-album called Christmas a few years back which melted even my ice-glazed innards.
This year, as if to even things up, they’re coming at the whole Christmas thing from a different angle. There’s nothing explicitly disturbing about “Santa’s Coming Over”, but the foreboding melody and plaintive lyrics, alongside a video of cherubic/sinister kiddies, does a nifty job of boiling the whole Santa thing down to its actually-rather-scary bare bones: an old man breaking into houses and creeping around kiddies’ bedrooms.
Kind of more suited to Halloween than Christmas, when you look at it like that…
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