Foxtails Brigade – “Time Is Passed” – [Foxtails Brigade]

Now that the San Francisco Bay Area’s extended Indian summer is finally starting to fade away with an impending rain storm, it feels like a great time to embrace Foxtail Brigade‘s winter holiday-themed release Time is Passed from 2011.

From upbeat odes to Christmas to somber reflections on fractured family time, it’s a lovely slice of sultry, nostalgic-feeling chamber pop that’s nicely accentuated with pretty percussion and strings (ukelele, guitar, violin, viola, upright bass and cello) both plucked and bowed. Although we’re adding the original 2011 release, a new deluxe version of the album was just reissued this week, bringing new life to these home recordings that were originally produced as a soundtrack to the film Losing Ferguson.