Gruff Rhys ‘Atheist Xmas EP’

 

On the 19th of December Gruff Rhys releases his ‘Atheist Xmas EP’. All over Britain Christians will be crying as they listen to intriguingly titled tracks such as ‘Slashed Wrists This Christmas’. Rhys describes the song as “addressing the seasonal but taboo subjects of manic depression and suicide”.

 

                                     Gruff Rhys – Slashed Wrists This Christmas

 

‘Post Apocalypse Christmas’ sees Gruff re-imagining Christmas “through the semi-melted eyes of a nuclear holocaust survivor”. That’s got to be more interesting than hearing Little Drummer Boy leaking out of the radio for the millionth time. This EP is the perfect antidote to the Xmas chart snow plough that is the X Factor, barging it’s way up the charts with twinkly Christmas drivel. I can’t wait to pop ‘Atheist Xmas EP’ on the stereo this Christmas day, sit back and watch my family’s jaw’s drop.

Gruff Rhys will also be making three in-store record shop appearances on 19 December, to coincide with the EP’s release. He’ll play solo sets at Cardiff’s Spillers Records at midday, Bristol’s Rise at 3pm and London’s Rough Trade East at 8pm.