The quartet - Brian Brigham, Landon Beard, Brandon Brigham, Todd Fournier - possess some smooth vocals that go down easy amid these sleek pop and jazz-styled arrangements.
Everything kicks off with the snappy "A Christmas to Remember." The ever-popular "All I Want for Christmas" is given a dramatic piano ballad treatment. An acoustic guitar-driven "Gift of You" oozes romance, while the peppy "Happy Holidays" features vibrant horns and lets the quartet show off more lush harmony chops (No surprise there - the guys spent several years as Frankie Valli's Four Seasons and are often seen on a PBS-TV Doo Wop program during pledge drives). Elsewhere, "Let it Snow" and the title track have a cocktail jazz vibe akin to early Michael Buble.
If you like Buble, Frank Sinatra or Boyz II Men, then you should definitely add this album to your holiday catalog. Grade: B+
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Other recommended Christmas 2020 titles:
The Bird and the Bee/Put Up the Lights
Jamie Cullum/The Pianoman at Christmas
Goo Goo Dolls/It's Christmas All Over
Lady A/On a Winter's Night - expanded edition
Matt Nathanson/Farewell December
Grant-Lee Phillips/Yuletide
Ben Rector/A Ben Rector Christmas
Sweet Lizzy Project/And So This is Christmas
Carrie Underwood/My Gift
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