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As we approach Christmas so begins the inevitable onslaught of Christmas songs – it’s very refreshing to hear something that’s both new and completely effortless and charming.
Like the sweeter, country sister of 'Fairytale of New York', it invokes feelings of home and belonging rather than making trite references to the more commercial aspects of the season.
This wistfully evocative track is brought to you by Louis Eliot & the Embers.
Louis Eliot is the former front man of Rialto and the track appears on ‘Kittow’s Moor’, his first new album in half a decade.
‘Kittow’s Moor’ is the follow up to ‘The Long Way Round’ - Louis Eliot’s critically acclaimed solo debut that was released by IRL in 2004. Marking Louis’s transition from metropolitan songsmith to country troubadour as he headed for home, it was declared album of the week by The Sunday Times and attracted high praise across the board.
Throughout his career, Louis has been at the hub of British song writing talent, most recently contributing two co-writes to Adventure Man by current Ivor Novello Songwriter of the Year, Eg White – yet another addition to the proven CV of an artist who can deliver a heart-stopping hit with easy charm.
And ‘Kittow’s Moor’ is no exception, demonstrating more than ever Louis’s extraordinary talent for wry observation and a rip-roaring, roller-coaster ride of a tune, but this time in the context of the countryside.
‘Kittow’s Moor’ is an album full of warmth, pastoral beauty and raw passion, played with effortless skill by a band of consummate musicians, so obviously attuned to Louis’s artistic vision – among them a dairy farmer and a tin whistler who runs a fairground waltzer ride – that the glorious sound they make feels like the most natural thing in the world.
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