{"id":57906,"date":"2019-12-01T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=57906"},"modified":"2019-11-30T17:58:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T17:58:46","slug":"the-essential-advent-calendar-december-1-a-very-cherry-christmas-volume-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/12\/the-essential-advent-calendar-december-1-a-very-cherry-christmas-volume-14\/","title":{"rendered":"The Essential Advent Calendar: December 1 &#8211; A Very Cherry Christmas Volume 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>It seems impossible but here it is. December 1, which of course means we open the first door of the season on the Essentially Pop Advent Calendar. Number one is \u2018A Very Cherry Christmas Volume 14\u2019, from Cherryade Records. With 26 tracks on the compilation album we could pretty much get away with just featuring a track per day from this, but we won\u2019t be lazy and we\u2019ll give everyone a chance.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The album features Essentially Pop faves, John Dredge and The Plinths, with their song, \u2018Christmas Time Is Here\u2019, so we\u2019ll let John tell you a bit more about it:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LNKCLoERPn\">pic.twitter.com\/LNKCLoERPn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Dredge (@johndredge) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johndredge\/status\/1197198978149945345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018A Very Cherry Christmas Volume 14\u2019 is available from their Bandcamp page <a href=\"https:\/\/cherryaderecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/a-very-cherry-christmas-volume-14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 26-track CD comes in a plastic wallet sleeve, with full colour artwork printed on the CD itself, and ships from 22 November.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018A Very Cherry Christmas 14\u2019 was compiled by Rachael Neiman-Wiseman and Gareth Jones, with\u00a0cover art by Bill Vine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems impossible but here it is. December 1, which of course means we open the first door of the season on the Essentially Pop Advent Calendar. Number one is \u2018A Very Cherry Christmas Volume 14\u2019, from Cherryade Records. With 26 tracks on the compilation album we could pretty much get away with just featuring a track per day from this, but we won\u2019t be lazy and we\u2019ll give everyone a chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3768,7,21455,9],"tags":[23725,23726,3938,13538,3787],"class_list":["post-57906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas","category-music","category-new-albums","category-new-releases","tag-a-very-cherry-christmas-volume-14","tag-christmas-time-is-here","tag-essential-advent-calendar","tag-john-dredge-and-the-plinths","tag-the-essential-advent-calendar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-f3Y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24702,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/12\/essential-advent-calendar-cherry-head-cherry-heart-road-to-rome-christmas-capitulation-mix\/","url_meta":{"origin":57906,"position":0},"title":"Essential Advent Calendar: Cherry Head, Cherry Heart &#8211; &#8216;Road To Rome (Christmas Capitulation Mix)&#8217;","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"04\/12\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Day Four of the Essential Advent Calendar is a jingly glittery remix of 'Road To Rome', by Cherry Head, Cherry Heart.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Christmas&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Christmas","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/category\/archived-categories\/christmas\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cherry-Head-Cherry-Heart.png?fit=997%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cherry-Head-Cherry-Heart.png?fit=997%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cherry-Head-Cherry-Heart.png?fit=997%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Cherry-Head-Cherry-Heart.png?fit=997%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":43868,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/12\/the-essential-advent-calendar-december-14-road-to-rome-by-cherry-head-cherry-heart-is-a-christmas-classic\/","url_meta":{"origin":57906,"position":1},"title":"The Essential Advent Calendar: December 14 &#8211; &#8216;Road To Rome&#8217; By Cherry Head, Cherry Heart Is A Christmas Classic","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"18\/12\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"With all profits going to Cancer Research UK, Cherry Head, Cherry Heart are back with their instant Christmas classic, 'Road To Rome (Christmas Capitulation Mix)'. 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