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There is a lot of holiday music coming out in the coming weeks, but a highly-anticipated album dropped on Friday… the first Christmas album from Darren Criss!

The singer/actor, best known for a breakout role on the musical FOX series Glee, has released his first full-length venture into holiday music, and we think it was long overdue. Darren’s beautiful voice is perfect for the Christmas season, so we suggest checking out his album, A Very Darren Crissmas!

On the record, you’ll find traditional holiday tracks like “The Christmas Song” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” as well as more modern covers like Criss’ rendition of John Mayer‘s “St. Patrick’s Day” and Regina Spektor‘s “New Year”.  He also teams up with actress Evan Rachel Wood on “Somewhere In My Memory”, from the Home Alone soundtrack, and with former Glee co-star Adam Lambert for “(Everybody’s Waitin’ For) The Man With The Bag”.

“I always knew that if I ever made a Christmas album, it would have to be much more than just a collection of songs you already knew, I’d want it to be a journey through songs that not only had a personal significance to my life, but also a unique introduction to songs folks had never heard before, and a re-introduction to a few they might think they know- but have never considered differently. Every eclectic choice led this album to feel astutely true to its namesake: a very, indisputably, ‘me’ Christmas,” Criss said in a official statement on his website.

Check out the tracklisting below as well as listen to his version of the classic, “Happy Holidays / The Holiday Season”. You can buy/listen to A Very Darren Crissmas wherever music is sold and streamed — including Amazon!

A VERY DARREN CRISSMAS Tracklisting

1.  Happy Holidays / The Holiday Season
2.  I Want A Hippopotamus for Christmas
3.  (Everybody’s Waitin’ For) The Man With The Bag feat. Adam Lambert
4.  St. Patrick’s Day
5.  River
6.  Welcome Home
7.  All Those Christmas Clichés
8.  The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)
9.  Somewhere In My Memory feat. Evan Rachel Wood
10.  Drunk On Christmas feat. Lainey Wilson
11.  Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
12.  New Year