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  • Summary: The Editors lead singer Tom Smith and former Razorlight drummer Andy Burrows team up to release an album of classic and original Christmas songs.
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  1. Positive: 6 out of 9
  2. Negative: 1 out of 9
  1. 80
    Featuring a blend of standards and originals spiced with judicious covers of sometimes obscure indie tracks, it manages to sustain a mood and attitude throughout without offering too many hostages to homogeneity.
  2. Q Magazine
    Dec 21, 2011
    80
    The songs are embedded with reflection and romance... This is how Christmas records are really done. [Jan. 2012 p. 118]
  3. Dec 13, 2011
    70
    Though few would have predicted this unlikely pairing and even less would have actively willed it to happen, the fact is that Smith & Burrows have forged a handsome partnership.
  4. Dec 13, 2011
    70
    A few moments of confusion and inconsistency, yet remains engulfing, evocative and mood setting.
  5. Dec 13, 2011
    70
    What could have been a throwaway side project has instead turned out to be a quietly charming and affectionate labor of love that hopefully won't be the last collaboration between the two.
  6. Mojo
    Jun 28, 2012
    60
    It's a fine - if eccentric- album, but a bit of extra tinsel wouldn't have hurt. [Jan 2012, p.98]
  7. 10
    The Christmas album can risk being a sonic Round Robin, of interest to few but its creators, dispossessed of all perspective as they've mired themselves deep in their icky, cosy world.

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