We last checked in with Jonathan Van Risseghem in July 2009 when we reviewed his album The Motions. Now, he has released a Christmas CD (December 1st). Before you click-off, the artist asserts: “I know Christmas CDs are really lame…but I promise this one is a lot different!”

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Hailing from Tulsa, Oklahoma, twenty-something singer-songwriter Jonathan Van Risseghem summons daydreamy pop-melodicism that betrays influence from such diverse sources as Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine and more AOR fare like Train’s “Drops of Jupiter.”

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