The Frost Is All Over (2015)

"If its Christmas, Kate Rusby will be found singing, either on tour or with a new album of Yuletide songs in Yorkshires stoutly upheld carol-singing tradition. This third Christmas album follows the same pattern as "While Mortals Sleep" and "Sweet Bells", featuring carols recast with folk tunes, well-worn standards and overlooked nuggets. Hence "Hark The Herald Angels" emerges as "Little Bilberry" amid a warm wash of brass band, "Cold Winter" is a retrieved Elizabethan piece and "Cornish Wassailing" evokes Christmas in the south-west. Rusbys tremulous vocals cant do much with "Winter Wonderland", but it makes for a winning bundle of secular and sacred, and the self-written title track, though candied, could become a fixture on the tree." (Neil Spencer, The Guardian)