5 December 2009 One Comment

Last year, around this time, I saw this group play this album in its entirety. It was a magical night…and I know that is lazy grammar, but it just was (see  http://diggingalot.blogspot.com/2008/11/so-low-in-manchester.html if you are so inclined).

You cannot go through Christmas and still claim to have a soul without listening to this at least once; it savours even the most sacharine Christmas. That is my biased and unreasoning opinion and I will not be swayed on this one.

From the Guardian ’sleeve notes’ yesterday:-

‘Having said that, there’s one “cool” Christmas record that I’ll play every year for the rest of my life, and that’s Just Like Christmas by Low. They’re not afraid to whip out the sleigh bells and BIG drums, but they balance it with a fragility that never becomes twee or mawkish. There are also poetic descriptions of them taking a trip across Scandinavia, searching for the true meaning of Christmas (“By the time we got to Oslo/The snow was gone/And we got lost/The beds were small/But we felt so young”)’.

Go and listen to it. Now.