December 2010 – ‘Happy Holy Days,’ 11 Acorn Lane’s quirky new Esquivel-inspired album, is a potent holiday cocktail with traces of funk, exotica, electronica, traditional European music and sounds like no Christmas record you’ve ever heard—and critics agree that’s a good thing:
“Delightful” – American Songwriter
“Accomplished musical whimsy” – Los Angeles Times
“Effervescent…wild, inventive arrangements” – Chicago Sun Times
“One cool record” – WXPN (Song of the Day)
“The holiday’s niftiest surprise” – MSN.com
“Bachelor-pad music master Esquivel is long gone, but his martini-fueled spirit lives on” – Philadelphia Daily News
“A good change of pace if you’re tired of Bing, Manheim Steamroller and the rest…” – HitFix.com
“Henry Mancini, Herb Alpert and Lawrence Welk sharing a drunken jam session after too much hot buttered rum” – Metromix
“The most original, multi-layered seasonal creations I’ve enjoyed in some time” Robert Drake, The Night Before on XPN
“Easily this year’s most musically inventive holiday CD” – Eagle Tribune (MA)
“Sexy and drunken horns, swinging accordion, cooing choruses, and a cha-cha beat are all milked for maximum merriment.” – The Village Voice (Top 10 Christmas Albums of 2010)
