Critical Role Rings In Critmas With A Full Length Holiday Album
Critical Role surprised fans on November 4 by dropping a collection of four festive songs from the perspective of various Exandrian mainstays entitled Critical Role Presents: Winter’s Crest (A Holiday EP). The extended play included the songs “Winter’s Crest Festival Time” (performed by Game Master Matthew Mercer as beloved NPC Pumat Sol), “Silent Mind” (performed by Laura Bailey as Bells Hells Imogen Temult), “Twelve Days of Grogmas” (performed by Travis Willingham and Ashley Johnson as their rowdy Vox Machina heroes Pike and Grog), and “It’s Critmas!” (performed by the full cast). The full-length version of the album enlists even more player characters from across the show’s three main campaigns into the festive antics. Here’s a full list of the Exandrian carolers traveling (Dimension) Door to (Dimension) Door on Critical Role Presents: Winter’s Crest (A Holiday Album):
In addition to streaming, Critical Role Presents: Winter’s Crest (A Holiday Album) will make its way onto the material plane in vinyl form. Both the standard and deluxe editions of the vinyl are available to pre-order now, with the cast-signed deluxe version offering all sorts of bonus goodies for fans including a variant cover, a postcard, a vinyl sticker pack of cast portrait ornaments, and a pack of Winter’s Crest polaroids. The physical copies of the holiday album are set to ship in Spring 2025 amidst Critical Role‘s tenth-anniversary celebration.
Critical Role Presents: Winter’s Crest (A Holiday Album) is the third full-length album from Scanlan Shorthalt music after Welcome to Wildemount and Welcome to Ta’Dorei. The new holiday album sets itself apart from the two previous entrants and Candela Obscura‘s soundtrack by providing lyrical flavor text to Exandria’s in-universe holiday of Winter’s Crest. Critical Role Presents: Winter’s Crest (A Holiday Album) provides quippy insights into how the characters across Critical Role‘s three main campaigns celebrate the festive season, offering delightfully nerdy spins on holiday classics.