Kate Rusby - Angels and Men

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2017
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:31
Size: 122,3 MB
Art: Front

(3:47) 1. Hark Hark
(3:31) 2. Let It Snow
(4:56) 3. Paradise
(3:46) 4. The Ivy and the Holly
(4:19) 5. Sweet Chiming Bells
(5:20) 6. See Amid the Winter Snow
(4:49) 7. Rolling Downward
(3:20) 8. Deck the Halls
(4:13) 9. We'll Sing Hallelujah
(0:08) 10. Banjo Banjo
(4:46) 11. Santa Never Brings Me a Banjo
(5:40) 12. Let the Bells Ring
(3:50) 13. Big Brave Bill Saves Christmas

There’s a style that’s become synonymous with the 21st-century Christmas: the sound of a grown adult singing like a child, their breath misting on a window like a spray of fake snow, old classics being turned into virtuous, fragile facsimiles. Kate Rusby has one of these voices pretty to many, mawkish to others and it has little variety or power on her fourth collection of festive songs. Let It Snow and Deck the Halls are delivered in the same disengaged, delicate way; each lyric falls and then melts, leaving no mark behind. Modern songs such as Santa Never Brings Me a Banjo feel slushily tailored to tug the heart (“maybe it’s too tricky for the elves”, Rusby sings); heavenly gleam is only offered on the traditional ballad Paradise, which recalls the ambient atmospheres of Clannad. Overall, though, this feels like a John Lewis Christmas advert extended to 52 minutes, its mannered naivety never knowingly undersold. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/nov/23/kate-rusby-angels-men-review-pure-records-christmas

Angels and Men

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