This might be the best new written Christmas song this year, it won´t surprise me anyway. "It isn't christmas without you (edit)" is in fact a christmas song in the spirit of Phil Spector. With jangly Rickenbacker guitars, brass, bells, glockenspiel and broken hearts - all in major key - as it's supposed to be.
The song is written by a relatively new artist on West Side, Petter Sandström, and he is supported by his superb orchestra the Money.
Mix and master is handled by Henrik Oja (Säkert! among others).
And as I said earlier, this is a great song, no doubt about it.

Petter Sandströms debut album "The River st Blues" is on its way out (release early next year), an album with Motown blood in its veins. But before that, please listen to his first solo single ever "Lean on me", a beautiful song with harmonies from the seventies and with a small echo from duets between Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.
Petter himself carries the tunes of pop perfection with his soulful voice, reminiscent of a young Van Morrison. Fundamentally supported by "The Money" - A band so tight and feverishly seductive, the one and only "The Band" springs to mind. These ten bar-soaked songs about the one that got away, sung on a street corner in Anytown, USA, will leave you all but indifferent.