A Very Chilly Christmas, featuring Feist and Jarvis Cocker. From feudal oldies to newer holiday pop canon, A very chilly christmas surveys a broad scope of seasonal repertoire and sentiment. There's grandeur and solemnity, there's austerity and merriment, and there's Mariah Carey. Christmas music: a peculiar genre that offers everything from solemnity to exuberance. Christmas carols are beloved, largely uncontested vessels for emotion and memory, gratitude and generosity.