Wednesday, 1 December 2021

Puppini Sisters - Dear Santa, I Can Explain


24 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS!!

Buy-stream Dear Santa, I Can Explain here (external link)

For me, the exquisite harmonies, inventive arrangements and glorious musical personalities of the Puppini Sisters have become synonymous with Christmas. Sure, they feature on one of the biggest selling holiday albums ever (a duet on Michael Buble's Christmas opus) but they also have their own Christmasography of seasonal songs. Dating back to 2010's Christmas With The Puppini Sisters, their Yuletide warblings have been an essential part of the holiday playlist ever since. They've returned to the most wonderful time of the year to deliver more gifts of speakeasy festive magic to help make you feel glad from head to mistletoe. This collection of four new songs will have you swingin' and a-jinglin' way into New Year, well on its way to becoming your future favourite classic collection of Christmas merriment. Grab the one you love and shimmy...
  • Jingle Jangle ~ this is, what my mum would call, a chuffing delight. The EP opens with a number so drenched in Andrews Sisters style yet still deliciously Puppini that it practically sparkles and shines with every note. Alongside a lushly textured big band score, there is a hand clap beat powered by the titular jingles and infused with decadent chimes. All about celebrating the joy of being with your loved one at Christmas - and the tingling feeling it gives you has rarely been so exuberantly described. Its positively titillating!
  • Dear Santa, I Can Explain ~ just the title alone has an aura of brilliance to it that draws you into the song before you even hear a note. Trying to avoid the naughty list, the ladies describe all their lascivious behaviour throughout the year whilst a slowly pulsing and scintillatingly seductive instrumental salaciously caresses those exquisitely intertwined voices. Quite honestly, the exploits sound absolutely essential and it is hard to imagine Santa not being absolutely charmed by their musical letter of contrition...
  • C.H.R.I.S.T.M.A.S ~ ever since D.I.S.C.O I've been smitten by songs that use each letter of the song title as a description. That playful band is utterly flirtatious on this one, working in symbiotic partnership with the Sisters; meanwhile Marcella, Kate and Emma have some great solo moments as well as the enchantment of those combined moments. There is wry humour within the words ("Who's Steve?" indeed) and, quite honestly, this should be a double A sided single with their gussied up version of Jingle Bells, in competition for the Christmas Number 1.
  • Twas The Night (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy) ~ taking the music from the Tchaikovsky classical standard, the ladies have whipped up a new narrative to the much loved instrumental. It gives a radiant new take on a tale as old as time (or at least as old as Santa) and is just pure Christmas heaven from start to finish. Much like everything else on the EP, this is as scrumptious as a Quality Street The Purple One Latte from Costa (other festive drinks and brands are available)! Now go tell everyone you've ever met about this wondrous new EP!
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