2008Released
2:27

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Interesting facts and trivia about White Winter Hymnal. By Songfacts®.

Lead singer and songwriter Robin Pecknold (from Daytrotter): "It's lyrically fairly meaningless. As an introduction to the record, (this was intended to be the opening track on the album), we thought it would be nice to start it with a simple jam that's focussed on singing - on the record it starts with a tongue-in-cheek harmony thing that we hoped would make people laugh or something but I think it just confuses them. This is my favorite song to play live, though singing it live is sometimes difficult because the lyrics are so vague. Weird how that works!"

The Seattle Times asked Pecknold how he and his bandmates created this song. He replied: "We never played it together. The performances that you hear recorded on that song were the first time those were done. So that one totally came together in recording."

The band's name is totally random. Pecknold told The Seattle Times: "When we named the band, we had no idea we would have to ever answer for the name. I like the alliteration."

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of White Winter Hymnal.
F♯Key
MinorMode
4/4Time Signature
125BPM

Album

The album White Winter Hymnal is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released White Winter Hymnal.
Sub Pop Records
2008 Sub Pop Records
2008 Sub Pop Records

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