Tuesday, 7 December 2021

Steps - A Hundred Years of Winter


18 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS!!

Buy-stream A Hundred Years of Winter here (external link)
Read my festive Steps music reviews here

I'm pretty sure that any act who is offered a song written by Darren Hayes and Walter Afanasieff is going to jump with joy like a kid opening presents on Christmas morning. Steps have been gifted with the rather melancholy yet hopeful A Hundred Years of Winter by that very duo. It is both beautifully nostalgic (in that it is reminiscent of when Steps pretty much dominated the festive charts between 1998 and 2001; and also very Darren Hayes Secret Codes and Battleships era style of song) and yet a shimmering contemporary sound for the band that has spent most of the season delighting fans up and down the country with their triumphant What The Future Holds tour. The song is a shimmering up-tempo ballad, all about traversing the rocky road of love and emerging to light up the world when it prevails. Gorgeous use of dramatic strings and a pulsing beat frame the hope and optimism in each of their individual vocals to soaring effect. It gives the song an ambient effect that is enhanced by the beautifully shot video. Maybe not a particularly holiday song but definitive proof that their heart is heading home (this Christmas). And if you are writing to Dear Santa, that is all you can ask for. 

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