So This Is Crimble, Caleb Nichols (Kill Rock Stars)

Nichols has been making music for a couple of decades now and just dropped a solo album in October 2023. Just a few days before Christmas this same year, he also dropped this EP keying off John Lennon's tossed-aside holiday greeting "Merry Crimble." "Christmas, California" is a cool mid-tempo rocker with heavy late-Beatles influences, although I had a bit of trouble following the lyrics. "Crimble Medley" mashes up several Beatles-related Christmas tunes, starting with "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" and proceeding into "Christmastime Is Here Again," "Wonderful Christmastime," "Photograph," and "Ding Dong Ding Dong," sometimes playing two or more of them at once. And "I Fell In Love On Xmas Day" is a sweet acoustic ballad with a Lennonesque vocal. Downloadable and streamable.