No More Lonely Christmas, the new album from ALYA, which was just dropped, is a fulfilment of the artist’s Christmas wish, embodied in the track that provides the name for the album.

The eight tracks feature ALYA’s versions of three classics, including a collaboration with Eric Clapton on “Silent Night,” and five original songs, including the title track, a fast, fun, hand-clapping, jazzy, pop love song.

“We wanted to create something that would be an updated version of Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You,’ which is a song I really love, a Christmas classic, but we felt like it’s time for something new, fresh, cool, and ‘No More Lonely Christmas’ is the song that came out of the thought.”

Where Mariah’s song is a wish for a certain someone, ALYA’s song is the wish come true: 

I waited since forever
and now that we’re together
I feel the holiday cheer
Cuz I’ll never be alone on Christmas

“It was very fun to record,” she said. “There is a lot going on in the track.”

Piano, horns, clapping, drums all combine in a happy, joyful celebration of love and the season.

“It’s just a very, very good feeling song. I had so much fun recording it, and I really hope that everybody else will feel the joy, feel the love that I put in the song. I really believe that it has all the chances of becoming a new Christmas classic.”

The song is a perfect namesake for an album that carries the artist’s Christmas hopes.

“I wanted to put over so much love, so much good emotion, so much good energy that when you listen to the record you will feel like, no matter where you are, you are surrounded by your loved ones.”

“Little Drummer Boy” and “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” along with “Silent Night,” are the album’s three classics. Together, they constituted the EP she put out last year, Home for Christmas.

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