1st pressing: Clear Red Vinyl, Limited Edition of 500 copies, sold out. 2nd pressing (Dec. 2005): Clear Green Vinyl, Limited Edition of 500 copies available.
Track Listing:
PAS/CAL: Last Christmas
Asobi Seksu: Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)
For their contribution to the holiday single, PAS/CAL retreated from the unfriendly, chilled, dry Michigan air to the cozy warmth of their built-from-scratch, backyard studio, laboring many a long, late, lonely hour by the wan glow of the computer monitor. With Casimer Pascal, their ever restless & inventive Captain Composer at the helm, they embarked on applying their familiar sound to the Wham! holiday heartbreak classic, Last Christmas. All the vital elements are there: Gene Corduroy's surging sonorous solos; Richard Panic's arabesques & grande plíes across the piano; the unmistakable radical rolling and thunderous thud of Little Tommy Daniels' drumwork; the hypnotically sexy & slinky bass lines of one Nathaniel F. H. Burgundy IV; Trevor Naud's sterling Morrison-istic guitar figures; Caz's dramatic croon and multi-tracked melodies; and a crystalline vocal accompaniment by the ever well-primmed Bem. Just for good measure, though, a sprinkling of augmentations has been added to make sure you're paying attention: a couple of carefully constructed disco breaks, some Branca-inspired sonic experimentations, an ecstasy inducing beer bottle breakdown, and a spacey, knob-twiddled organ freakout, for starters. (PAS/CAL appear courtesy of Le Grand Magistery, Asobi Seksu appear courtesy of Friendly Fire)
