35 DAYS TIL CHRISTMAS!!
Buy The Christmas Album (Deluxe Edition) here (Sanity)
Read my review of the original release of The Christmas Album here
It's been two years since the always reliable, always dapper and always uniformly excellent vocal group Human Nature gifted us all with The Christmas Album. Since that time, the collection of songs has become firmly embedded in my annual playlists and continues to do so this year. I've always felt that Christmas albums and The Christmas Album should have life beyond the initial 12 Days of Christmas they are released in, that they should be innovatively marketed year on year to reach a new audience. Clearly the Aussie Fab Four feel the same because now a Deluxe Edition is available with, count 'em, four corking new tracks for your enjoyment. The new tracks slot seamlessly alongside the existing 14 songs and renew the energy felt across the entire selection of songs. Read my review of the original (above), whilst immersing yourself in the glorious new songs...
The first new track is being used as a single to promote this new edition - and quite rightly so because it seems the guys team up with none other than pop royalty Delta Goodrem on Let It Snow. She takes the playful flirtation of the lyrics and turns it into a truly seductive number. Meanwhile the guys give their best skillful raconteur performance set to a lovely languid instrumental, infused with jingles, shuffling percussion, dancing piano and a warming guitar. Of course, when their voices texture together in serendipitous harmony, it's almost like a scene from White Christmas shimmering into view from your speakers. Exquisite arrangements make this a charming winner from start to finish. They amp up the tempo for a rollicking version of Run Run Rudolph that brings an exhilarating rock'n'roll vibe to their honed Motown sound. The piano almost takes on a life of it's own, a rousing run up and down the keyboard. Keeping pace are the guys who sound in their absolute element to be let loose with such vigour and vim. Their gleeful enthusiasm for the performance is entirely contagious and leaves you feeling giddy, breathless but supremely satisfied by the track's conclusion. I particularly the hand-clap beat that permeates the song (most notably around the "Said Santa to the girl child 'what'd please you most to get?'"). Sterling stuff.
**Ghosts of Christmas Past**
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