Cult alt-indie-rock Londoners Tellison this week unveiled their new single 'Snow (Don't Tell The Truth This Christmas)'. Available exclusively from the group's Bandcamp as a pay-what-you-want download here, with all profits going to the charity CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably).
Inspired in equal parts by Dave Bazan, The Weakerthans and East 17's 'Stay Another Day', Tellison's frontman and guitarist SH Davidson wrote 'Snow (Don't Tell The Truth This Christmas)' while waiting for his turkey to cook last Christmas. By that point he realised it was probably too late to get a Christmas single out, so 'Snow...' has been gently mulling for 11 months in Tellison's practice space in an East London basement. The song itself is a hopeless request for a Christmas truce, a sad plea for a stay of execution. Where most Christmas singles emphasise the ephemeral positivity of the season and ignore winter's more sombre aspects, Davidson's song acknowledges the value in that pretence without denying December's underlying melancholy. The song begs for the protection of the joyful Christmas period precisely because without it the freezing sadness might become too much to bear.
Download 'Snow (Don't Tell The Truth This Christmas)' from here
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