Don’t defrost Mariah Carey just yet, guys! Duran Duran have sidestepped the cliché of the Christmas album and returned with a differently themed collection that could catch on. Danse Macabre is a Halloween album, so instead of sleigh bells and children’s choirs we have spectral keyboards, glowering basslines and a tracklist of cover versions that sounds like it was great ghoulish fun to compile.
