Christmas is a time for singles, isn’t it? When everyone talks about the race for the Christmas number one, they mean the individual song that’s dominating the season, not the album – otherwise The Killers’ greatest hits would qualify as this year’s festive favourite.
For decades, a CD or cassette single was as ubiquitous a stocking filler as a squashed satsuma, but now that streaming services are stuffed with ready-made Christmas playlists that will serve up Mariah and Wham! and Ed and Elton with automatically generated ease, recording a whole Christmas album seems like a bit of a faff.
