The New York City-based dream pop-ers, Asobi Seksu, traveled to the city of brotherly love to record their cover of The Ramones dysfunctional Christmas classic, Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight) with producer Darren Morze. There they laid down tracks to analog tape in the warm comfort of Darren's home studio. Spreading their gear about in the old house, they utilized all the ambient details of the crumbling, cracking crevices of old doorways, kitchens, and pantry closets to properly construct their well-known earsplitting and melodic live sound: the driving, fuzzed out 1,000-guitar choir of James Hanna blanketed in the vocals of Yuki, the robotic sledgehammer drum attack of Keith Hopkin, and the solid fuzzed out groove of Glenn Waldman's precision bass. With these tools, they proceeded to channel all of Phil Spector's wall of sound teenage symphonies to God, with the urgency, heart, and speedball energy of the denim-clad Little Band That Could from Queens, all the while adding their own trademark warmly layered and lush sound to this entreating ode to Christmas-time reconciliation. (Asobi Seksu appear courtesy of Friendly Fire Recordings)
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)

Originally released in December, 2004, the first pressing (limited to 500 copies) of Season's Greetings came on Transparent Red Vinyl, and quickly sold out.

Now we've selected a festive Transparent Green Vinyl for the second edition of RAR-0001. Once again, there are only 500 copies available. As well, the Artwork has quite a few distinctions from the original jacket - lots of hidden intricacies that Mr. Sean McCabe snuck in.