Tis the Season. The season, amongst other things, when we seem inundated by either the same old Christmas sonic standards or, with increasing regularity, modern knockoffs trying to make a quick buck.
What I’m saying is that Christmas songs generally don’t aim for the highest standards. Then again, they don’t have to. It is enough that they bring a bit of fun and festive cheer at the year’s end, and even the most popular ones seem jarringly out of place at any other time. But there is another way to do things, and Limahl shows us this alternative approach with his latest and timely single, One Wish For Christmas.
But who better than the man who was the voice of Kajagoogoo and a successful solo artist to add the same sort of finesse and sophistication that has always marked his music to a musical genre more usually associated with throwaway fun?
One Wish For Christmas is a wonderfully sentimental and soulful serenade, a beautiful ballad built from lilting piano lines, gently chiming sonics, string sensations and hushed harmonies. It is also a song that falls as effortlessly in line with the 50’s crooner style as it does modern pop balladry. And as it soars into more anthemic territory and additional tones and textures are wrapped around it, you realise you are listening to something truly magical. It is a song that would be welcomed any time of year, even given its theme and lyrics.
Why can’t all Christmas songs be this deft, this delicate, this well-thought-out, this perfectly crafted? Why can’t all Christmas songs be this good?
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