Mabel - I'll Be Home For Christmas

ONE MONTH UNTIL CHRISTMAS EVE!! 

Stream The Loneliest Time Of The Year/I'll Be Home For Christmas here (Spotify) 

Read my review of Mabel's The Loneliest Time Of The Year here

Last Christmas, Mabel gave us her heart via the lilting melancholia of the still-exquisite The Loneliest Time Of The Year. It was a melodic reminder that Christmas isn't all jingle bells and cinnamon swirls for everyone - and her message is even more timely with the lockdown Christmas of 2020. She balances this out, however, with a new track to accompany the re-release of that song; the determined hope of I'll Be Home For Christmas. Set to a finger click groove and elegiac guitar accompaniment, Mabel sings the lyrics with a wistful yearning that encapsulate the wishes of those separated from their families this year. With jingling bells and her own interpretation of the melody, it feels both timely and timeless. The key change at around the 2m mark is phenomenal - as if she is drawing strength from the words she sings and believing her titular promise may actually be possible. It is a joyful and triumphant moment in a song that is beautifully produced and sung with such nuanced emotion it is as if she is singing our own feelings. If Mabel wants to release a Christmas song every year of this calibre, I'd be A-OK with that...

**Ghosts of Christmas past:**

• 24th November 2019 ~ Mabel, Loneliest Time Of The Year
• 24th November 2019 ~ Wrabel, (It Wouldn't Be) Christmas Without You
• 24th November 2018 ~ Sutton Foster, It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
• 24th November 2017 ~ Anton Du Beke, It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
• 24th November 2016 ~ Cast of Chicago (Broadway), Holiday Melody
• 24th November 2015 ~ Olly Murs, Christmas Songs
• 24th November 2014 ~ Roses & Revolutions, It's Christmas
• 24th November 2013 ~ The festive collection of Debbie Gibson
• 24th November 2011 ~ Elf The Musical
• 24th November 2011 ~ The Winter Wonderettes OST