Christmas Time is Here Again
Mark Crozer is best known as guitarist in The Jesus & Mary Chain as well as, alongside brother Paul, part of the now defunct International Jetsetters.
Here the brothers try to resurrect an imagined halcyon day for Christmas records, possibly forgetting that Christmas records have always been mostly bilge of the lowest order. This, however, is really quite lovely, like My Bloody Valentine waking up on Christmas morning to discover Santa's brought them a shiny deluxe Beach Boys boxset and a set of sleighbells and setting out to prove they have a sweet, sugar-coated side. It's a wonderfully pure piece of snow-pure guitar pop that's wide-eyed and completely irony free. And, like snow, it's melted away to nothing too soon.
Sledge-gazing, anyone?
Nightshift, December 2011
Here the brothers try to resurrect an imagined halcyon day for Christmas records, possibly forgetting that Christmas records have always been mostly bilge of the lowest order. This, however, is really quite lovely, like My Bloody Valentine waking up on Christmas morning to discover Santa's brought them a shiny deluxe Beach Boys boxset and a set of sleighbells and setting out to prove they have a sweet, sugar-coated side. It's a wonderfully pure piece of snow-pure guitar pop that's wide-eyed and completely irony free. And, like snow, it's melted away to nothing too soon.
Sledge-gazing, anyone?
Nightshift, December 2011
