anorak christmas

(Photo by Frida Klingberg via Sally's official site.)

Sally Shapiro - Anorak Christmas (2006) (via last.fm)

A guest post from Tag:

Sometimes I feel like someone's made a record with me in mind. Not in
an angst-bitten way, analysing lyrics and convincing myself "it really
speaks to me". I mean something that matches my own personal brand of
perfection. A song I'd want to marry. Gothenburg's Sally Shapiro has
made such a record. A record produced in the blissed-out Italian disco
tradition, with a melody to match Abba's most bittersweet moments,
delivered by a singer so possessed of wide-eyed lovesickness, she
makes Annie sound like a veritable vixen. It's called "Anorak
Christmas" which should make me wince with cloying indie associations
- but it's just right. It could sound contrived, coquettish, but it
simply sounds like a girl who's fallen rapturously in love at some
midwinter discotheque, emerged into the snow and went straight home to
put her feelings down, hesitantly but honestly.

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My note - Sally so beautifully makes it her own, it's surprising to find out the song's actually a cover. Here's the original by twee synthpop artist and fellow Swede Nixon:

Nixon - Anorak Christmas (2000)