Posts written by Emmy The Great
Emmy The Great & Tim Wheeler - This Is Christmas
Saccharine (adj.)
- Excessively sweet or sentimental
- Relating to or containing sugar; sugary
To save me constantly referencing a thesaurus, looking for ten different ways to say the exact same thing, I’ve put that definition at the top of this review. I can call the songs cloying, sickly, overly sentimental but it all comes back to that one word: saccharine. If you were expecting this to sound like Ash, or Emmy’s own output, or a brilliant mixture of the two, you will be sorely disappointed. “This Is Christmas” does what it says on the tin. This is, very much, a traditional Christmas album.
AGCS @ SSW week
AGCS just back from Summer Sundae 2009 in Leicester and the rest of the week will see reviews of all 36 acts we saw sets of over the weekend, plus a general overview of what went down.
Tomorrow will review the Friday, with highlights including Múm, Jeremy Warmsley, Wild Beats, BLK JKS and Robin Ince.
Wednesday will take a look at the Saturdays bands including 65daysofstatic, Mr Hudson, Bombay Bicycle Club, Minnaars, Emmy The Great and The Kabeedies.
Thursday will review the closing day of the festival with acts including Bon Iver, Chairlift, Monotonix, Woodpigeon and Micachu and the Shapes.
Finally, to round off the week Friday will feature top 5 lists ahoy, plus a general review of the festival overall… queue praise/several rants.
Greg
