Tuesday, 16 December 2025

Nina Nesbitt - Scotland in the Snow


9 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS!!

Stream the Scotland in the Snow single here (Spotify)

It is Christmas Time Again which mercifully means that Nina Nesbitt is back with a delightfully new wintry single. And as 7" vinyl is now a thing again (hurrah), it could easily be her A and B side with two new songs. The first is the charming Scotland in the Snow - an original song that Nina delivers with elegance and grace. What I love about Christmas music is it is not all the whistles and bells that makes a song successful (though that clearly helps in some cases) but it is the heart and soul that goes into the sentiment that can make the most stripped back songs sparkle like the most ornate lights on your tree. With just a guitar accompaniment, Nina paints a vivid picture of the wonders of the holidays in grand Instagram worthy destinations, yet it is the emotions of her delivery of the titular refrain that really helps the sentiments of the song resonate the most. It's quiet and beautiful but as powerful as if Whitney Houston herself were belting it to the rafters...

And we are gifted with a second song from Nina, this time a cover version of one of the most ubiquitous Christmas songs of multiple generations. Wham's Last Christmas is an evergreen - an oft festive chart topper that has been interpreted many ways. And when the interpretations are as exquisite as this, I am here for them. Nina takes the elegiac musings of the song and turns them into a solemn yet captivating lover's lament. Her guitar creates the ambience of wistful reminiscing whilst moments of echoing, layered backing vocals give the production an almost haunting, arresting element that makes the emotions so visceral and real. The sorrow reaches out like the biting cold of a winter night, yet there's still a slither of light and hope within the vocal performance and the music - when she hums the melody, it is the promise of better days ahead. What the word exquisite was invented for. 

**Ghosts of Christmas Past**
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