Whether you peaked too soon with your personal Christmas playlist or roll your eyes at everybody else’s festive favourites, Wales Arts Review knows that sometimes the classic holiday tunes just don’t quite hit the spot when you’re looking to make merry. But with just one more sleep to go, and that special hint of magic in the air, now is the perfect time to turn up the volume and wind down with some alternative Christmas tunes curated by Wales Arts Review editors and contributors.
Taking in everything from Sufjan Stevens’ indie Christmas alternative listens to the best of punk’s edged-up festive tracks with a hint of LCD Sound System, John Cale, Fiona Apple and The Beach Boys for good measure, it’s time to hit play on Wales Arts Review’s definitive alternative Christmas playlist. So let the port flow, the fire glow, and leave Mariah Carey and Wham! behind in the supermarket aisles… here is Wales Arts Review‘s Alternative Christmas Playlist.
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Wales Arts Review works to bring our readers the best critical writing from Wales, and the best critical writing about Wales. It is a place where passionate and informed arts critics, from Wales and beyond, can find expression. Our writers are neither drum-beaters nor axe-grinders but simply knowledgeable and dedicated people who care deeply about culture and society.
Founded in March 2012, Wales Arts Review is a media platform where a new generation of critics and arts lovers can meet to engage in a robust and inclusive discussion about books, theatre, film, music, the visual arts, politics, and the media.
Wales Arts Review commissions and publishes content in the English language, yet it proudly acknowledges that Wales is a bilingual nation with a richly diverse bilingual culture. We therefore do not restrict our focus to arts and literature delivered only in the medium of English. We have published reviews and articles examining works by Welsh language artists and companies; from the work of Theatre Genedlaethol Cymru to TV hit crime-thriller Y Gwyll. We have also covered the National Eisteddfod and were proud to announce that the winner of our 2014 ‘Greatest Welsh Novel’ prize was Caradog Prichard’s Un Nos Ola Leaud. Wales Arts Review looks forward to working with partner organisations on future projects that critically evaluate and celebrate all the languages of Wales.
We believe that a vibrant arts scene is the expression of a confident, healthy and creative society. We further assert that a flourishing and vigorous critical culture is vital to its sustenance and development. As such, we regard Wales Arts Review as an important building-block in the new outward-looking, forward-thinking Wales.
