Glasvegas
A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like A Kiss)
Release Date: Dec 1, 2008
Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
Record label: Columbia
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Album Review: A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like A Kiss) by Glasvegas
Fairly Good, Based on 3 Critics
Based on rating 6.5/10
Review by Travis Woods.
Based on rating 6/10
What a year 2008 has been for Glasvegas. They started the year by coming fourth in the BBC's Mystic-Meg-goes-pop 'Sound of 2008' poll behind Adele, Duffy and The Ting Tings respectively. They blow up, filled the cover a certain weekly, released their critically acclaimed album in September and now round it off with a Christmas record that singer James Allen has been talking about since his band first gained fame.
Based on rating 3/5
If Glasvegas try any harder to emulate Phil Spector, they'll end up in court for murder. This stocking-filler Christmas album, with its punning title and three-hankie melodrama, is an unabashed homage to the erstwhile tycoon of teen. While US indie bands favour wry, tender Christmas songs, Glasvegas come bearing choirs, bells, a blunt-to-a-fault song about homelessness and a solemn Silent Night, all wreathed in snowstorms of reverb.
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