I love the annual
Doctor Who soundtrack releases as much as the next fan, not only to relive some of the latest season's greatest musical moments but in many ways just because Murray Gold is such a superb composer and even without a spoken plot it is so easy to get immersed into the worlds created by each of his pieces. That said, the
Christmas Carol album seems a tad pricey considering it covers just a one-hour special, and begs the question of why the songs weren't held back for the inevitable Series 6 compilation we will probably see hit shops this Winter. Certainly, the festive tones of the soundtrack won't fit particularly well into the everyday lives of customers seeing as the next December 25th is over nine months away! What I can credit this compact-disc for, however, is as always the quality of the music on offer, since while it can become repetitive on a second or third listen for the first time in the history of these releases there's a real sense of a flowing, cohesive narrative lacking from its predecessors, which instead take one or two songs from each episode and thus can't feel totally seamless in transition between tracks. A mixed bag, then, yet if fans don't mind spilling out extra cash for a release that is
way out of its festive timeframe, this is Murray Gold's music at its absolute best, and Katherine Jenkine's
Abigail's Song won't leave a dry out in the house if you get this out when the sleighbells start ringing.
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