The Top 10 Christmas Albums of 2018

Here it is again, just in time for Christmas eve: Our annual list of the best Christmas music of the year.

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Tidings of comfort and joy

It’s late november, and darkness has fallen over my home in Stockholm.

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The Top 10 Christmas Albums of 2017

It’s the end of a busy season. We’ll be back again next year, and wish you the warmest and happiest times until then.

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This Time of Year

Time is the greatest decorator Paint those mean things Red and green things And hang them on the tree June Christy – from “Hang Them on the Tree” This old Chri

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A song to mark the end of the season

A traditional mid-century Julgransplundring – a period when the tradition was at its absolute height. A key feature are the children in colourful hats.

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Five Great New Year’s Songs

Considering just how many speculative and burningly hopeful Christmas records are released every year, it’s quite surprising how little commercial attention has been paid to

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The Top 10 Christmas Albums of 2016

Every year, besides our regular steady stream of classic records, we make a conscious effort to wade thought those thousands of hopeful releases that flood over us every new season

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Dust off the fairy lights, warm up the toddy; Christmas time is here again

When does Christmas actually begin? You may remember, back as we started a new year and the last embers of the Christmas fire smoldered in the fireplace, that we’ve already a

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Saint Canute’s Day, A Traditional End of Christmas, and Our Seasonal End As Well

When does Christmas actually end? For a lot of commercial Christmas radio stations, the end of the Christmas period is as early as the evening of Christmas day! While people are pl

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The Playlist: Christmas in the African Diaspora

British cultural theorist Paul Gilroy famously concieved of the African Diaspora as the Black Atlantic, emphasising the connection between artists and traditions in Africa itself,

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