Wrapping: Three young ladies wearing inappropriate clothing for this time of year on the cover; inside see one of them cooking, one going skiing and the other apparently about to lop down a tree, for some unexplained reason.

Content: Ten tracks which do their work quickly and annoyingly catchily, including Last Christmas, Let It Snow, All I Want For Christmas, Step Into Christmas and Winter Wonderland.

Style: 1940s-style doo-wop with a sprinkling of jazz, ragtime, scat and cabaret, backed up with Bee-Gees-in-lipstick close harmony warbling.

’Tis the reason to be jolly: Perfect party music, some clever ideas, and anything which manages to include tubular bells and get away with it without sparking calls for a public inquiry deserves credit.

Scrooge moan: Cheesier than an explosion in an Edam factory. Christmas cynics will hate it. Oh, and they aren’t actually sisters.

White Christmas?: Present, correct, and given a retro-futuristic swing.

Blue Christmas?: No way. Goes out of its way to be bouncy.

Stocking or shocking?: One to slam on the Christmas Day stereo rather than give as a present.