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Album Review: Anthony Callea - This Is Christmas

Pete Laurie

If you forget to get your mum a present this year and see this for sale at a service station on the way to Christmas lunch, it’ll do the job.

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No one ever won a TV karaoke contest by trying anything new or different. So it's no surprise that This Is Christmas is a collection of the most obvious and predictable Christmas standards, with the most obvious and predictable arrangements. Do you already own a festive album by a Buble, a Connick, Jr or any other faux crooner? Then you already own Anthony Callea's This Is Christmas. If you forget to get your mum a present this year and see this for sale at a service station on the way to Christmas lunch, it'll do the job.