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Jan 3, 2012Featuring 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.
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Q MagazineDec 21, 2011The songs are embedded with reflection and romance... This is how Christmas records are really done. [Jan. 2012 p. 118]
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Dec 13, 2011What 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.
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Dec 13, 2011Two tracks truly warm the cockles. And if the rest is merely pleasant, hey, season of goodwill and all that.
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Dec 13, 2011A few moments of confusion and inconsistency, yet remains engulfing, evocative and mood setting.
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Dec 13, 2011Though 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.
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MojoJun 28, 2012It's a fine - if eccentric- album, but a bit of extra tinsel wouldn't have hurt. [Jan 2012, p.98]
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Dec 13, 2011It's a lopsided affair: while Smith bleats on about being cold and feeling old (on the dreadful When the Thames Froze), the songs on which Burrows takes the lead possess a more pleasant and gentle Elliott Smith lilt.
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Jan 18, 2012The 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.