Emma: **.5
Charlie: (zero stars)
Emma: Well, this is the most disparate compilation we've come across yet. There's a track that fairly Danny Elfman-esque, another that's the same version of 'O Unto Us A Child Is Born' that I have on a full Messiah elsewhere, a really poor we-whacked-this-together-this-morning original, and much more. Some is good, some is bad, but the combo is entertaining, at least.
Charlie: Obviously meant to be sold as some kind of "free with purchase" deal, this album is a strange bird. It's overproduced to the point of school-project-dom, yet the production values themselves are high enough that you'd think they might have known better. Similarly, the arrangements shout "I was written in MIDI and then tweaked until the arranger lost all perspective." The performances are credible enough, but this sounds exactly like something that was done in the hopes of making a buck, and not out of love for the music, Christmas, or anything else.
Put it onto your music-shelf?: No, guess not.
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