Celebrated Folk Icon Ivan Rivers starts off this compilation with a heartswept anarcho-fantasy of two pining-in-the-pines rural romantics torching down their home county in the Christmastime. Produced by Rivers' Stuck Out Here bandmate and former Holidaze artist Emmett O'Reilly (PKEWx3, Respire, Owen Wilson) and backed by the frozen ocean cries of "Heavenly" Devin Staple (The Old Salts, Red and the Ramblers, Sparse Parts), "Formed in the Snow" is a fitting ode to the now past-Huron County roots of the extended Bummeratti familia and to setting afire your past as you carry your own light forward into yr brave new beautiful futures.

Blow past the vineyards that made all the wine
The country club pours for their frostbitten kind
Plowed under by wonder this hung winter holds
Been blessed with a burden born cold in my bones

A bounty a bundle of pinecones and bows
I’ll hold you down under the belle luna’s glow
Pressed onto you under you carried in whole
Leave lover and angel molds formed In the snow

Formed in the snow

Past-midnight by starlight a frozen shoreline
Climb makeshifted glaciers your mitten in mine
Watch treefires burn buildings hear coastowners cry
Red and green jerry cans merry and bright

A rock from a rooftop: was that old Saint Nick
Caught clipping the driver of a down-bad crown vic
The sirens give off such a cherry-red glow
On a cop car crash spectacle formed in the snow

Formed in the snow

Do you remember how our worlds caved in
Your body my body our love and our sin
How we cleansed in the Christmas lights peeled off our skin
Bloomed crimson and clover became born again

When we burn the whole countryside let it be known
Our love’s in each blustering breeze ever blown
In each flake and each ash of these lives and these homes
In the county-sized crater we formed in the snow

Formed in the snow