Nostalgic spectres and swoon-worthy harmonies lit up It Ain’t a Sin (If it’s Christmas)

Lemonade Sin’s It Ain’t a Sin (If it’s Christmas) may just be the wooziest, most amorous Christmas song we’ve ever heard, and it absolutely deserves to be as integral to the UK Christmas canon as Love Actually. With members of Pale Blue Eyes jingling sleigh bells into the jangle-pop tipple of a track that teases ambiguous hedonism that’s left almost entirely to your interpretation, the atmosphere glints with wholesome festive seduction. There’s just enough instrumental iconography to fill you with the warmth of spectres of Christmas nostalgia and draw you closer to the people still in your world, yet nothing dilutes the effortlessly stylish signature of Lemonade Sin, which has been impossible not to adore since they first affixed themselves to our radar. It’s an intoxicating release which proves there’s still plenty of scope for Christmas songs released this side of the millennium to reach the top of the charts. We may be living in an era when indie is kept mostly underground, stumbled upon by the lucky few, but that doesn’t get in the way of the swoon-worthy, superlative songwriting display on show here. As for the deliciously layered harmonies, you might just end up meeting angels that aren’t […] The post Nostalgic spectres and swoon-worthy harmonies lit up It Ain’t a Sin (If it’s Christmas) appeared first on A&R Factory.

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Lemonade Sin’s It Ain’t a Sin (If it’s Christmas) may just be the wooziest, most amorous Christmas song we’ve ever heard, and it absolutely deserves to be as integral to the UK Christmas canon as Love Actually. With members of Pale Blue Eyes jingling sleigh bells into the jangle-pop tipple of a track that teases ambiguous hedonism that’s left almost entirely to your interpretation, the atmosphere glints with wholesome festive seduction. There’s just enough instrumental iconography to fill you with the warmth of spectres of Christmas nostalgia and draw you closer to the people still in your world, yet nothing dilutes the effortlessly stylish signature of Lemonade Sin, which has been impossible not to adore since they first affixed themselves to our radar. It’s an intoxicating release which proves there’s still plenty of scope for Christmas songs released this side of the millennium to reach the top of the charts. We may be living in an era when indie is kept mostly underground, stumbled upon by the lucky few, but that doesn’t get in the way of the swoon-worthy, superlative songwriting display on show here. As for the deliciously layered harmonies, you might just end up meeting angels that aren’t […]

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