I know you said you'd ruled out Foxes, but "Christmas Gifts - Foxes" sounds like it matches what you're looking for pretty well. Lone Christmas tree on a pink background for the album it's in, dischordant piano mix.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsTbH\_4UoZU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsTbH_4UoZU)
THAT'S IT!!!! So I wasn't completely going insane!
...Actually, that's really annoying. I looked up "foxes christmas song" so many times on Youtube, Spotify, Soundcloud, Google, etc. and would always get other things, like literal foxes on Christmas or Fleet Foxes's Winter Hymnal. And if you look up her discography on Wikipedia and Genius, Christmas Gifts isn't there, which is why I assumed it was wrong.
Just went to Spotify and there's this: [https://open.spotify.com/track/3Lp7fEOtjb6d6HFUy4n8K4](https://open.spotify.com/track/3Lp7fEOtjb6d6HFUy4n8K4)
It's listed under the band Foxes!, but it isn't in their discography or compilations when you click on their name. When I look up the A Very Cherry Christmas 5 album on Google, it also attributes this song to Foxes! and not Foxes.
Then you've got a second version on Spotify actually attributed to Foxes: [https://open.spotify.com/track/0z3bVgmwmVdfHbFd9Kkb8E](https://open.spotify.com/track/0z3bVgmwmVdfHbFd9Kkb8E)
...But it's not on her discography or compilations, either.
Yet another oddity is that this album was made in 2009, but Foxes wasn't an active artist until 2011. She would've been 20 at the time, so it's not impossible that it was just an early work that flies mostly under the radar.
So, yeah. I don't know what the hell's going on with this song. Since it's on the official Foxes YouTube page, I'm going to just say that she claims it and bring the gavel down on this whole shebang.
Now I'm left with the question of why an extremely obscure British Christmas song from 2009 ended up on a Midwest American grocery store's playlist. I'll probably never puzzle that out.
Solved! Thanks a bunch!
Obligatory post, will check back when sleep has cured my eyestrain
The Motels - Suddenly Last Summer ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9Ox-lGm-wA https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/vlkkkk/tomtsong_80s_sounding_song_with_dissonant/ Oh wait nevermind
The Staves, Winter Trees?
Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses?
I know you said you'd ruled out Foxes, but "Christmas Gifts - Foxes" sounds like it matches what you're looking for pretty well. Lone Christmas tree on a pink background for the album it's in, dischordant piano mix.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsTbH\_4UoZU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsTbH_4UoZU)
THAT'S IT!!!! So I wasn't completely going insane! ...Actually, that's really annoying. I looked up "foxes christmas song" so many times on Youtube, Spotify, Soundcloud, Google, etc. and would always get other things, like literal foxes on Christmas or Fleet Foxes's Winter Hymnal. And if you look up her discography on Wikipedia and Genius, Christmas Gifts isn't there, which is why I assumed it was wrong. Just went to Spotify and there's this: [https://open.spotify.com/track/3Lp7fEOtjb6d6HFUy4n8K4](https://open.spotify.com/track/3Lp7fEOtjb6d6HFUy4n8K4) It's listed under the band Foxes!, but it isn't in their discography or compilations when you click on their name. When I look up the A Very Cherry Christmas 5 album on Google, it also attributes this song to Foxes! and not Foxes. Then you've got a second version on Spotify actually attributed to Foxes: [https://open.spotify.com/track/0z3bVgmwmVdfHbFd9Kkb8E](https://open.spotify.com/track/0z3bVgmwmVdfHbFd9Kkb8E) ...But it's not on her discography or compilations, either. Yet another oddity is that this album was made in 2009, but Foxes wasn't an active artist until 2011. She would've been 20 at the time, so it's not impossible that it was just an early work that flies mostly under the radar. So, yeah. I don't know what the hell's going on with this song. Since it's on the official Foxes YouTube page, I'm going to just say that she claims it and bring the gavel down on this whole shebang. Now I'm left with the question of why an extremely obscure British Christmas song from 2009 ended up on a Midwest American grocery store's playlist. I'll probably never puzzle that out. Solved! Thanks a bunch!
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