Blog: Snob's Music

I wasn't sure what to expect when I began listening to Songs In The Key Of Hanukkah. And after a few times through I'm still not sure what I heard. Erran Baron Cohen, brother of Sacha, is the mastermind behind this project. The album features many traditional Jewish Hanukkah songs reinterpreted for today's music listening public. The songs are mostly electronically backed with flares of Spanish, funk, and jazz inspiration. Funky horn flourishes on tracks like "Dreidel" make much of the album a rump-shaking club [...]