Lost Christmas, various artists (Memphis Industries)

Here's another label compilation of roster artists performing Christmas songs for 2020, and don't let the label's name fool you, this is more indie-rock-pop than country. Kicking things off is Field Music's "Home For Christmas," a festive poppy number well suited for its playlist position, and a tune that was actually out in 2019, though you might have missed it because they issued exactly five copies of the song. Haley provides the pensive winter ballad "Like Ice and Cold," Warm Digits goes synth-poppy with "Good Enough For You This Christmas," Rachael Dadd goes all Tori Amos on us with "We Build Our Houses Well," and Stats performs the bouncy rocker "Christmas Without You." A couple of more familiar numbers are included here, if in new versions, with The Phoenix Foundation offering the synth-vocoder take on "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, and Jesca Hoop covering Fleet Foxes "White Winter Hymnal," which seems to be catching on as a holiday tune; even Pentatonix has a version of it now. Francis Lung goes upbeat, in tone at least, with "To Make Angels In Snow," The Cornshed Sisters offer the piano ballad "Have a Good Christmas Time," and The Go! Team gives us a bouncy end-of-year anthem, "Look Outside (A New Year's Coming)." Proceeds go to support Crisis UK's Home For All initiative. This is a very listenable compilation even if you've never heard of any of these artists before, so go grab it.