Photo by Ryan Russell 

David Bazan gathers fourteen years worth of Christmas singles for, Dark Sacred Night! The collection is out November 11th and all ten tracks have been remixed, remastered, and you can hear the lead single, a cover of Low’s “Long Way Around the Sea” now courtesy of Stereogum.

Bazan shared the following words on the track:

“Early on (in the process of making the yearly singles that would become Dark Sacred Night) it was difficult to find “Christmas songs” that were true enough (in my mind) for me to be able to sing them. When I heard Low’s “Long Way Around the Sea” I connected with it immediately: hidden motives, mass murder, quiet discernment, escape from tyranny, grown ups traveling to chill with a strange baby…so much (slow, sad) fun.”

Pre-order will ship on October 31, 2016
Pre-order customers will receive an instant download of “Long Way Around the Sea”
First 150 pre-order customers (regardless of format) will receive a folded 11×17 poster

“There is something that is underrepresented in Christmas music, and that’s just how uncomfortable the holidays can be for a lot of folks,” David Bazan says about his collection of holiday songs Dark Sacred Night. Back in 2002, David Dickenson of Suicide Squeeze Records approached Bazan and asked if he would be interested in doing a 7” of Christmas carols. The result was the “I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day” b/w “Oh Come, Oh Come Emmanuel” single released under Bazan’s Pedro the Lion moniker. He followed it up with “The First Noel” 7” in 2003 and “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” in 2005. Even after retiring the Pedro The Lion project, Bazan continued his run of Yuletide singles for Suicide Squeeze under his own name. These limited edition 7”s are all long out of print, but David Bazan and Suicide Squeeze have chosen ten of the fourteen tracks, remixed and remastered the material, and collected them on Dark Sacred Night.

The first LP pressing is limited to 2000 (blue vinyl w/ white snow flakes) copies. Digital download card included.