NEW! SINGLES REVIEW : Disappointment Choir/A Pretty Good Christmas

It's not often I review a single, let alone buy one, and, in truth, I haven't yet bought this one, as it isn't out until monday, but I will be, and not out of loyalty alone.

"A Pretty Good Christmas" by the (doomed to?) Diaappointment Choir is that rarity, a realistic seasonal song, with a hefty residue of the ennui that struggle can bring to the enforced and compulsory jollity of Yule, truly a song of making do, in times of tightening belts, and, defiantly, of not tightening nooses. A plaintive vocal and repeated minor chords, with elegant harmonies, swathed synth coming in before the end. But don't trust me, listen to it. Surely it's time to banish the usual garbage, Slade, Cliff, Wham, to the dumper. For the sake of posterity, sorry, austerity.

Buy it!!