Tuesday, 9 December 2014

Advent Albums 8:

'To Drive the Cold Winter Away' by Silverwood Quartet

Emma: ***
Charlie: ***

Emma: This was a mistake. I was actually looking for the Loreena McKennitt album of the same name but got tricked by Spotify. Which explains why this album is only about 50% Christmasy and 50% Just-Plain-Baroque. But, Baroque chamber music sounds Christmasy anyway, so it kind of worked... Instrumental niceness it's easy to let float around on a midwinter's morning.

Charlie: Likewise, this is inarguably nice music that works well for that downtime between presents-opening and the earliest time you can reasonably have a cocktail. When you want to just sort of lie on the floor. This is good for that time. Or mixing in a bit most anywhere. This is the pink peppercorn of holiday albums.

Playlist it?: 50% of it.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Spotify!!!! (said like Captain Kirk cursing Khan)

Ione said...

Impressed by both the album cover and Charlie's review. "Pink peppercorn" and that lie on the floor downtime. The richness of it all.