Aly & AJ - Acoustic Hearts of Winter - 320kb

By teen-pop standards, Aly & AJ make a bold move on on their first holiday album and second disc. Instead of fizzing up the figgy pudding or decking the hall with a bunch of flashy hip-hop beats, they play it straight--"Silent Night" is justly peaceful (heavenly, even), "Let It Snow" lands as softly as a blanket of the newly fallen white stuff, and "Joy to the World" holds up its heartfelt peace sign by way of classic old-fashioned carol-crooning. Clearly the girls got a little giddy going through their parents' holiday music collection while conceiving this disc, and clearly they were thinking beyond its commercial prospects (how many underage starlets would challenge their cash-strapped core demographic with "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"?). Yet Acoustic Hearts, apparently, do not beat by yuletide sincerity and good-girl harmonizing alone--in an overt but not unlikable nod to the teen need to kick out the holiday jams, Aly & AJ let loose on three tracks: "Deck the Halls" gets into a George Michael-inspired groove, and two originals--one happy ("The Greatest Time of Year") and one sad ("Not This Year")--plumb the meaning of the annual sugarplum dance to semi-rockin' beats.

01 - Greatest Time of Year - Aly & AJ - Acoustic Hearts of Winter.mp3
02 - Joy to the World - Aly & AJ - Acoustic Hearts of Winter.mp3
03 - We Three Kings - Aly & AJ - Acoustic Hearts of Winter.mp3
04 - The First Noel - Aly & AJ - Acoustic Hearts of Winter.mp3
05 - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Aly & AJ - Acoustic Hearts of Winter.mp3
06 - Silent Night - Aly & AJ - Acoustic Hearts of Winter.mp3
07 - I'll Be Home for Christmas - Aly & AJ - Acoustic Hearts of Winter.mp3
08 - Let It Snow - Aly & AJ - Acoustic Hearts of Winter.mp3
09 - Deck the Halls - Aly & AJ - Acoustic Hearts of Winter.mp3
10 - Little Drummer Boy - Aly & AJ - Acoustic Hearts of Winter.mp3
11 - Not This Year - Aly & AJ - Acoustic Hearts of Winter.mp3
12 - We Wish You A Merry Christmas - Aly & AJ - Acoustic Hearts of Winter.mp3