When explaining the album on the band's official website, Moe member Chuck Garvey wrote the following: "OK, here's the deal.

Early on, Rob (who is a complete Christmasaholic) came up with the idea to record a Holiday album.

We had just finished with mixing and mastering a studio album that was set to be released in about five months, yet here we were talking about making ANOTHER recording that had to be ready in one-fifth the time.

So all sudden-like, we were in backstage rooms across the midwest, listening to Christmas albums IN SEPTEMBER to "get in the mood".

This recording exists primarily because Rob IS "Robbie Christmas" and he infected us all with his "sickness" early in the year!