I missed this Irish singer-songwriter's 2015 EP December Days, but she's back for 2016 with a second EP in a row of Christmas material. The song her label is promoting is "Wake Up It's Christmas," a piano-led ballad with just a hint of that sort of Enya-esque orchestration in the background. "Merry Christmas Mum & Dad" is another piano ballad about Christmas through a child's eyes, and "Something Beginning With Christmas" and "Christmas Kiss" show off the singer's Celtic influences. That leaves a straight rendition of "White Christmas" and a chamber-ballad take of Slade's "Merry Xmas Everybody." A little too conventional for my taste, but the reverent take on Slade does tickle me.
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