Emmy the Great and Tim Wheeler: Present … This Is Christmas – review

(Infectious)Given the histories of its makers, there's no surprise that This Is Christmas features both spunky, Ramonic guitar pop and wistful acoustic balladry. The bigger shock is the third element in Emmy the Great and Tim Wheeler's seasonal collaboration: the sound of throwaway 80s chart pop. Snowflakes is all tinny drum machines, cheap keyboard washes and the kind of synthesised basslines that, to listeners of a certain age, will summon images of Radio 1 DJs in tinsel crowns with their jack...

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