The Sound Of Christmas

The ‘Christmas song sound’ revealed, in aid of Shelter.

Christmas songs have a special, indefinable magic, and we can all tell them when we hear them. But what is it exactly that makes a Christmas song sound Christmassy? Because it's more than just lyrics about snow and chestnuts. What exactly is ‘the sound of Christmas’?

 

This Christmas we wanted to uncover what makes a Christmas song -  so we challenged up-and-coming London band, Hotel Lux, not exactly known for a Christmassy sound, to work it out for us by writing and recording one, in just one day, at London's legendary RAK studios. 

The Sound of Christmas

Watch our film of Hotel Lux working out the Christmas sound in the studio below.

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The Carvery

Watch our video of an instant Christmas classic below.

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The Carvery

Available as a digital download on Hotel Lux’s Bandcamp (available to buy digitally) and will be on Spotify from 19th December. All proceeds go to the housing and homelessness charity, Shelter, supporting our Christmas partnership with them where 100% of all sales of our best-selling white T-Shirt go directly to them to support the vital and incredible work they do all year round, but especially at Christmas.

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The Carvery was then mixed by Ben Baptie, one of the best British engineers working today, who mixed the latest album by The Strokes, on the same challenge of identifying the Christmas sound, but this time from behind the mixing desk.