‘Little Lights’ Receives 5 Star Review From Renowned For Sound
Singer-songwriter Janet Devlin has just received an outstanding 5 star review from music blog Renowned For Sound for her new holiday EP, ‘Little Lights.’ “It’s another little holiday gem for fans to enjoy at this time of year; even if it’s not quite so outwardly festive, that doesn’t mean it isn’t a stellar piece of work,” says Renowned For Sound. Read the stellar review below, and be sure to head over to renownedforsound.com for more!
The most interesting aspect of Little Lights, however, is that it mostly doesn’t sound like a Christmas track. Merry Christmas Mum & Dad, a touching thank you to her parents for creating the spectacle of Christmas in their home, is as close as it gets, with its twinkling piano melodies conveying most of the mood while the strings do the rest. Elsewhere she plays with sound and mood, adopting dark, ambient synths on Wake Up It’s Christmas and relying heavily on piano for her cover of Merry Xmas Everybody, Ukulele on White Christmas and an army of strings on both; the final two tracks, instead, aim for a folk feel, with the previously released Christmas Kiss adopting a full flavoured Irish folk feel. It covers different, sometimes darker sides of the Christmas season, and conveys its message perfectly with lyrics rather than laying it on thick with holiday-appropriate instrumentation. It’s a refreshing collection, perhaps even more so than last year’s December Daze.
Watch ‘Wake Up It’s Christmas’ below:
If anything, Little Lights just proves that December Daze wasn’t a lucky break. Janet Devlin has had an uncanny way of twisting the Christmas style to her musical whims two years in a row, each time creating something exciting and a little different to give an alternative spin to the holidays. It’s another little holiday gem for fans to enjoy at this time of year; even if it’s not quite so outwardly festive, that doesn’t mean it isn’t a stellar piece of work.
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anet Devlin’s ‘Little Lights’ is a perfect stocking stuffer and has something special for everyone on your list this Holiday Season. The EP is available for digital purchase on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, and Bandcamp. The EP is available for streaming on Spotify. It is also available for physical purchase at music retailers nationwide. ‘Little Lights,’ as well as ‘December Daze,’ is available in the OK!Good Records Shop. Exclusive merchandise is available through Pledge Music.
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