**95 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS**
Pre-order LeAnn's Today Is Christmas here (Amazon US - out October 16th 2015)
Ghosts of Christmas Past Last Christmas, I gave LeAnn Rimes my heart - and she didn't disappoint. Her "One Christmas" project was a musical delight that bought euphoric glee and wistful memories to the most wonderful time of the year. This year she's delivering a full album of Christmas songs to continue the tradition of her songs soundtracking your happiest of memories. Out on October 16th, Today Is Christmas is preceded by the most wondrous duet with Gavin DeGraw that is entitled Celebrate Me Home. It's an instantly timeless gem, thanks to those glorious hammond church organ riffs and an organic, live sounding instrumental that makes the vocals sound like they were recorded right there with the band in the studio.A languid shuffling percussion creates the aura of time slowing down to allow you to capture every single second of the season, every moment that you spend with loved ones - making each of these trinkets of time an invaluable gift to be treasured. When LeAnn sings, she's a masterful performer - each note is embedded with the melancholy and pathos she feels at letting worldly pursuits get in the way of spending time with family and friends. Yet there's a sense of urgent pleading and hope in there, that new efforts will be appreciated and accepted for the olive branch they are (for what is Christmas if not a time to put old resentments aside and start a new). Gavin is equally as commanding a singer - his voice unspools all the regrets you have within and gives you the power to rectify these with small gestures of kindness, all whilst giving the narrative of the song a vibrant warmth that feels like an aural hug. When their voices coalesce and wrap themselves around each other it's a breathtaking moment that takes you to church, filling you with a giddy sense of peace and goodwill that's sure to last way beyond the season. It really is a glorious song that feels like a story the world needs to hear - if the rest of the album is as mellifluously beautiful as this is (and I'm pretty confident that it will be), then I'm all aboard the LeAnn Christmas train for many holiday memories to come. Stunning.
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