Ambience - Christmas Ambience: Soundtrack For The Christmas Season
STYLE: Orchestral RATING OUR PRODUCT CODE: 5652-5490 LABEL: Brentwood CD5579 FORMAT: CD Album RRP: £6.99
Reviewed by Daniel Williams
Well when you start seeing Christmas goodies in the shops, and get Christmas CDs delivered by a postman wearing a Father Christmas hat, you know that Christmas is on the way. Every year a handful of 'new' Christmas albums appear, and old ones are re-released - but most of them sound alike and are only worth playing to the grandparents on Christmas Day or sending to Auntie Mabel who hasn't got a CD player (thankfully!). There are some, however, that break the mould, but I'm sorry to say that this particular album isn't one of these and doesn't inspire me to dig out my carol book, either. I am rather fond of carols (at the right time) but the only ones I recognised on the CD were "Silent Might" and "Away In A Manger", which sound nothing like the originals! Altogether a bit of a disappointment, so it's back to the rock and dance for me! (Well, for a month or so, anyway.)
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