Son of Evil Reindeer by The Reindeer Section

Son of Evil Reindeer, the second album from Scottish indie supergroup The Reindeer Section, came out on 24 June 2002, the follow-up to Y'All Get Scared Now, Ya Hear! The collective was Gary Lightbody's side project away from Snow Patrol, and he'd finished writing the songs by January before the crew recorded them that February. Japan got its own version with 3 extra tracks.

Lightbody has said he wanted this outfit slow, hushed and folky, drawing on records by Low, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell more than on the American rock that first made him want to start a band, and the album mostly keeps that promise: late-night, candlelit indie with a lot of heart on its sleeve. "You Are My Joy" outlived the project. Snow Patrol played it live at Somerset House in August 2004, released that take as a B-side of "How to Be Dead", and later put it on their 2009 collection Up to Now.

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