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More hits than misses on this festive EP – Christmas with The Choir of Man
“Feigning joy and surprise
At the gifts we despise
Over mulled wine”
I’ve nonetheless but to make it to The Choir of Man however while I muse the uncomfortable seats of the Arts Theatre, right here’s a festive music launch in new EP Christmas with The Choir of Man. As with any Christmas selection pack, the six-song assortment here’s a little bit of a blended bag, which can go well with totally different tastes otherwise (you may all the time have my Bounty 😂). I’m largely allergic to spoken-word interludes and positively to post-track laughter, Elaine Paige’s haunts me to at the present time, however neither can distract from Marcus Collins’ delightfully heat tackle ‘This Christmas’.
The format of lead vocal supported by choir is used rather a lot (I feel I believed they solely sang altogether). The falsettos of The Darkness’ ‘Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End)’ plus the youngsters’s choir actually aren’t my bag, as wittily written and properly sung as it’s (lead vocals by Mark Beveridge). Original observe ‘Spend the Rest of Christmas’, led by James Hudson, is fairly however the EP shines greatest when bringing the ensemble to the fore.
‘Driving Home for Christmas’ shimmers as co-leads Tom Brandon and Richard Lock lead the group having nice enjoyable. The egalitarian nature of the group’s harmonies actually shine by way of on stalwart ‘The Christmas Song’ and a correctly beautiful interpretation of Joni Mitchell’s ‘River’ (eternally co-opted as a Christmas track now although it’s in the identical ‘it’s simply set at Christmastime’ class as Die Hard IMHO….) – Blume’s preparations actually coming into their very own.
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