Blake Collins crafts his own original holiday tune, "It's Christmas Time"
Review by Austin Sher
Shared last week on December 11th, 2020, Blake Collins has debuted a fantastic and instant Christmas classic, “It’s Christmas Time”. Please read along with us for our full detailed review on the single, in addition to a bio on the artist as well.
For those who might be unaware, Blake Collins is an American and British indie rock singer and songwriter who crafts his music using poetic lyrics, passionate vocals, and an honest, emotive performance. You’ll notice almost immediately that his overall sound is reminiscent of greats like The Beatles, The Kinks, and the Beach Boys, as well as solo artists like Elliott Smith, Emitt Rhodes and Harry Nilsson. When he’s not creating Christmas music, his regular catalogue typically comes from an intimate and personal perspective and he crafts engaging narratives with catchy melodies, lush harmonies and memorable hooks to achieve pop perfection.
What he’s done this holiday season is truly something special. On “It’s Christmas Time”, he’s taken all the best parts of what makes him unique and filtered it down to one catchy and original tune that we’ll be playing for years to come. It’s almost as if The Beatles made this song themselves, however they did not, this was all Blake Collins’ doing.
Featuring classic Christmas sounds like sleigh bells and mixed in with heaps of joy, we can confidently say this is a holiday song that we won’t be getting sick of anytime soon. While there’s just so many “boring” songs in the genre, Blake has gone ahead and injected a very necessary dose of indie rock and originality to a subset of music that so desperately needed it. Considering we’re just weeks away from Christmas Day, this track will be on repeat endlessly until then.
Whether you’re spending time with family this year, or not, it’s always a good time to get into the spirit. While this year has been weird and disruptive for sure, it’s glimmers of happiness like this that make it all worth it. Instead of playing the same old classics over and over again, try out something new in the form of Blake Collins’ newest, we can guarantee you won’t regret it. Once you fall in love with what he’s done here, go ahead and check out the rest of his discography, it also won’t let you down.
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