Andy Sunshineโs new single โI Believe in Christmas,โ released November 12, 2025, arrives as an unexpectedly bittersweet addition to the holiday canon. Written on New Yearโs Eve 2022 during a season marked by heartbreak and emotional upheaval, the song channels the ache, nostalgia, and tentative hope that define the quieter side of Christmas.
Sunshine, a Guernsey-based songwriter with a fondness for melancholic acoustics and big, theatrical choruses, recorded the track in the heat of June 2024 with producer Finn Connolly in a tiny home studioโwindows shut, no fans allowed, every shimmer of sound shaped by hand in sweltering silence. The process was a crash course in craft, with cutting overwritten verses, rethinking vocal range and learning when to let the instrumentation breathe. What emerged is a holiday song built not on glitter, but on emotional truth.
The track opens with sparkling soft strumming guitars that instantly set a warm, wintry glow despite the summer recording conditions. Sunshineโs rich, rounded voice enters heartwarmingly, carrying both weight and comfort as he reflects on ghosts of Christmas past and the unease of an unknown future. Soon the drums come thumping in, steady and earthy, grounding the sentiment rather than dressing it up. Electric guitars rev melodiously underneath, adding a Queen-like liftโan intentional nod to the glam, anthemic textures Sunshine grew up admiring. His chorus swells with the sort of melodic hook holiday songs live or die by, a soaring, emotional payoff thatโs equal parts ache and uplift.
The release is rounded out with an instrumental version, allowing the songโs carefully shaped arrangement to shine, plus a remix that brings new color to the melody. Taken together, โI Believe in Christmasโ stands out because it resists the temptation to be jolly for jollinessโ sake. Instead, Andy Sunshine offers a holiday song that honors sadness, resilience, memory, and the magic of believing anyway.
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Review by: Naomi Joan