Hope you guys weren't looking forward to hearing instruments this evening . .
Album Title: Christmas Hymns and Carols, Volume 1
Album Artist: The Robert Shaw Chorale
So here's another prime example of Yours Truly picking up an album out of Radio Wasteland's Dollar Bin solely due to the shitty album cover.
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Great album cover, guys.
This is an old record. You can tell because the mixing on this album is pure dog shit. The audio levels are all far too quiet and the surface noise is atrocious, even after a thorough cleaning on my Spin Clean. 'High Fidelity' my ass.
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Not like one of those 1970s brick-and linoleum congregational churches with faded carpet and shitty coffee that looks like a doctor's office and smells of old people and dust.
There's not much to comment on this one, I apologize - this is gonna be a quick and easy review. Each of these tracks consists of a medley of standard, religious (and, if not religious, at least somber) carols that blend together well and, for the most part, are all familiar to the casual Christmas music listener. This helps because if they included 'original' Holiday songs, this album would be really, really weird. What kinda stuffy church would have the audacity to have their choir sing original numbers during the Christmas season?
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No surprises here, all safe choices. |

But I sure as shit don't wanna hang out with you.
VERDICT: 5/10 - Meh (As far as a capella Christmas choir albums go, I guess. . . . it's. . . okay?)
- SHELVED-
- Brian
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