Three hours of music to decorate the tree are not just a simple background: they become a secular ritual, a pop liturgy that crosses eras and languages.
Between new Christmas classics and historic Christmas songs, this year's playlist moves like a pendulum between nostalgia and reinvention, where familiar melodies coexist with fresh songs, designed to undermine the sugary rhetoric of the holidays without giving up the warmth.
Alongside the evergreens that continue to dictate the time of the holidays – now more archetypes than songs – there is space for new Christmas songs that try to express Christmas with a contemporary lexicon: more sober arrangements, intimate, sometimes ironic writings, capable of restoring complexity to an anniversary often reduced to a perpetual jingle. It's a soundtrack that doesn't impose atmosphere, but builds it slowly, as the lights come on and the tree takes shape.
The result is a long, enveloping listen, designed not only to celebrate, but to inhabit the suspended time of the holidays.
