When a young John Peel was still John Ravenscroft, his original intention was to be known as ‘Helen Llewelyn Product 19’. It seems fitting then, that a small independent label founded by a self-confessed group of ‘obsessive’ music fans should lovingly adopt this bizarre moniker.

The MIDI keyboard soul of Filipino Dream Girls and gentle acoustic musings of Brighton songstress Mertle feature on this charming festive offering, a ramshackle concoction of triumphantly anti-Christmas pop tunes, complete with an abundance of ironic sleigh bells. Lost Boy Scout’s rant of ‘Bring Me the Head of the Man in Red’ captures this ethos perfectly as the musical equivalent of a stubborn child’s whinging about not getting everything on ‘their list’. I challenge anyone to find another Christmas song that threatens a certain Saint Nicholas with a ‘bazooka in his belly’.

Jon Bauckham