Home Free - Full Of Even More Cheer

47 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS!!

Buy Full Of Even More Cheer here (Amazon UK)
Read my review of the original Full Of Cheer here

It is two years since a cappella country music sensation, Home Free, released their inaugural Christmas album, Full Of Cheer - a collection of 11 seasonal songs that covered every emotion and nuance of the most wonderful time of year that you could imagine. It ranged from the deliriously giddy fun of Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer to the humble reimagining of carols like Silent Night and Angels We Have Heard On High. These are original and interpretation of classic songs that have become the indelible soundtrack to the Yuletide period - and now, thanks to a new deal with Wal-Mart, Home Free have revisited the album and renamed it Full Of Even More Cheer. It keeps eight of the original tracks (meaning we say goodbye to the lovely Baby, It's Cold Outside and witty Hairy Christmas) and adds two new songs to make this feel vibrant and fresh all over again. Their harmonies and vocal abilities to create instrumental sounds are just as adept as ever, making the new music a worthy addition to the collection. First up is Colder Weather, a lovely languorous ballad that tells the story of two people kept apart by the forces of nature in the winter wonderland. Gorgeous textured voices add an aura of poignancy to the elegiac lyrics whilst a sparse percussion conjures up images of the storming winds that accompany this time of year. The melody is achingly beautiful, adding to the pathos of the lyrical tale the fellas weave - yet it is not a song that leaves you sad and morose. Rather, it crescendos into a triumphant declaration of hope and unity, a belief that tomorrow will bring possibilities that today has forbidden. It is both a fitting and stirring end to the tale of separation, and a metaphor for the world at large. Don't ever give up because that is when you lose that fighting human spirit that makes the dream reality. The second new song is a reverent cover of the hymn How Great Thou Art. It is a stunningly wondrous, harmonious version of the triumphant music that has endured through the years to bring comfort and succor to many. It is in trusted, able hands with the Home Free gentlemen who give the words the sense of majesty and awe they deserve. It is so captivating and enchanting that you almost feel like you are sitting in a grandiose cathedral, listening in rapt attention to the choir in front of you. I love a song that can elicit such evocative feelings and images - this is one of the finest I've heard in a while. Simple, honest and sincere. So do check out Full Of Even More Cheer because these two songs will bring hope and happiness to your seasonal soundtrack.