In November, the four
singles of the Snowflakes Christmas Singles Club, edition 2013, will
be released.
All singles come in a full
colour picture sleeve on white vinyl, limited to 500 copies. On the
A-side, the singles will have an original, on the B-side a cover.
On the first single,
London folk/blues duo Smoke Fairies, joined on violin by Neil Walsh,
sing about how celebrating Christmas with friends and loved ones
makes one feel at home in their 'Simple Feeling'. On the flipside
they do a haunting and beautiful rendition of 'I Wonder As I Wander',
a Christmas carol written by singer John Jacob Niles, based on some
lines of a folk song he once heard a little girl sing in a small
village in Appalachian North Carolina.
Stockholm, Swedens' indie
poppers The Garlands have rearranged and rerecorded their 'Christmas
Song', prevously released as a download only in 2008, for the second
single. This Chrismas love song has the sound of the swinging 60s,
with bells, piano, sweet harmonies and all. Their cover of 'I Don't
Intend To Spend Christmas Without You', written in 1967 by Margo
Guryan for French actrice, singer and dancer Claudine Longet, is a
perfect fit with their original song, has the same hip 60s vibe, but
still with a indiepop bite.
The third single has
chamber popband The Miserable Rich from Brighton with an uplifting
original, 'Everything You Want', in which singer James is out to buy a
Christmas present for this lover and finds himself – and the
present - with friends in the pub at the end of the day. The
Miserable Rich cover the antiwar protest song 'Stop The Cavalry',
written and made into one of the most loved Christmas songs from the
early 1980s by Jona Lewie.
Surf pop band The
Silhouettes from Amsterdam are featured on the fourth single. The
Silhouettes have written an very Christmas sounding song, about
looking forward to sit with your lover 'Under The Mistletoe'. They
back it with a surf version of the Christmas standard 'Have Yourself
A Merry Little Christmas', written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane and
first sung by the legendary Judy Garland in the classic 1944 musical
'Meet Me In St. Louis'.
Pre-orders going up later
this month!
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