Kate Rusby: While Mortals Sleep – review

(Pure)Amid the usual slew of cash-ins, here is a Christmas album that does what a Christmas record should: make you feel as warm and comforted as the post-dinner mince pies. As with 2008's Sweet Bells, Penistone folkie Rusby draws on the tradition of carol singing in South Yorkshire public houses, even unearthing centuries-old tunes in Diadem and Holmfirth Anthem. Delivered in an accent as South Yorks as Barnsley Bitter, opener Cranbrook finds her singing While Shepherds Watched to the t...

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