A very nice Christmas song from Hurts

This has been available for a good few days but we've been so behind (writing our very very exciting zine... see below) that we're only just getting round to writing about it. It's basically what you'd expect if Hurts put out a Christmas song; a little bit gloomy but with a definite light at the end of the tunnel, classic Christmas motifs (we love bells, soz) and an 'alternate' message. The one in "All I Want for Christmas is New Year's Day" is Hurts preferring New Year's Day to erm, Christmas. It is a bit tragic in the way that they're singing about what an awful year they've had and how they can't wait for a fresh start, despite them actually having the best year of their lives, professionally anyway.

More importantly, it's the best original Christmas song we've heard in a long while. Fuck off Mariah stans. PS, the actual video is here, but you can't embed it so you'll just have to put up with a shit version in this post. Merry Christmas!