Yuletide, Grant-Lee Phillips (self-issued)

For 2020, the popular singer-songwriter gifts us with an EP featuring "Winterglow," a song he performed on "Gilmore Girls" in his character as the "town troubadour," and fattens up the release with Nat King Cole's "Take Me Back to Toyland," Frank Sinatra's "An Old-Fashioned Christmas," and a version of "Auld Lang Syne" with an extra verse supplied by Grant-Lee. This is a smoothly pop-folk performance that, in keeping with our quarantine year, is more pensive and personal. Phillips' fans will be right there for this (he's giving it away with the purchase of another of his albums on vinyl), and those of you looking for some holiday warmth will want to get in on this.