'Tis the Season to be Gotee Too, various artists (Gotee)

The Christian rock label lets go of its second holiday sampler for 2012. Gotee artists tend to do big-sounding commercial rock-pop productions, and this collection underlines my assessment. Jamie Grace gets two cuts from her previously released EP, "O Come O Come Emanuel" and "What Child Is This," the latter in combination with Abandon Kansas, who also performs without Jamie on "Do You Hear What I Hear." Capital Kings has a synth-pop version of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and a wildly deconstructed version of "Carol of the Bells." Stephanie Smith's "O Holy Night" is the typical arrangement led with acoustic guitars, building to a big climax, Finding Favor spiffs up "Silent Night" with a faster tempo and a nice shuffle beat, Johnnyswim does "Baby It's Cold Outside" in the usual arrangement, Harper Still has a semi-country take on "I'll Be Home For Christmas," and House of Heroes has a nice elegiac version of "The Rebel Jesus." Good collection if you're not familiar with these groups and you like pop in your rock.