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[alternative folk] (2018) Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert
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(2018) Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert - Ghost Stories for Christmas



Review: 
Aidan Moffat and RM Hubbert enter the festive fray on formidable form with a sobering and intoxicating antidote to the sugar-sweet Christmas jingles and narratives we can’t always connect to; squeezed spots and traumatised trees in tow. 
Ghost Stories for Christmas arrives hot on the heels of the Rock Action heroes’ acclaimed debut Here Lies the Body, with the duo’s cover of ‘Lonely This Christmas’ serving as a perfect (miserable) manifesto for their enticingly unorthodox coalition of Christmas. Gone are the sumptuous, soaring harmonies of Mud’s original. In their place, a drum machine as cold as Santa’s workshop when the heating packs in; and the lush, bruised baritone of Moffat: ‘Merry Christmas doll, wherever you are’. 
No escapism is to be found in ‘Ode to Plastic Mistletoe’, where ‘the bargain fairy lights all flash and fizzle’. Instead, Moffat gives voice to solemn ghosts, the temporarily lost and yuletide participants made cynical by consumerism and alienated by the elusive resolution found by the young couples around them and on television screens. 
This voyage into the hollow, existential void many find themselves trapped in during Coca Cola lorry season makes the tender reassurance of The Recurrence of Dickens all the more potent. ‘If your glass be filled with reeking punch instead of sparkling wine,’ Moffat begins, compassionate and charged with cheek as ever: ‘Thank God it’s not worse’. His lens focuses upon ‘present blessings’ and the ‘merry faces’ of children while Jenny Reeve’s stirring violin guides us towards a grounded yet joyous conclusion only the most driven and committed of Scrooges could resist. 


Tracklist: 
01 - Fireside.flac 
02 - A Ghost Story for Christmas.flac 
03 - Desire Path.flac 
04 - Such Shall You Be.flac 
05 - Lonely This Christmas.flac 
06 - Weihnachtsstimmung.flac 
07 - The Fir Tree.flac 
08 - Only You.flac 
09 - Ode to Plastic Mistletoe.flac 
10 - The Recurrence of Dickens.flac 

Summary: 
Country: UK 
Genre: alternative folk

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