In Which

Alex Cumming, Kate Locksley, Rosie Calvert and Will Finn met in 2010 on the Folk and Traditional Music degree course at Newcastle University, recording their 2013 debut One for the Pot while they were all studying. 2015's Of Labour and Love found this still youthful a cappella four-piece in even more engaging and vibrant form, winning over increasingly sizeable live audiences with traditional and contemporary songs, including their own compositions, from across the British Isles, liberally spiced with murder ballads and shanties.

Sadly, they say this third collection will be their last, although the good news is that In Which sees them bowing out in style, spotlighting their impressive singing and arranging skills while revisiting some favourite subjects. There's a healthy selection of sea-faring songs, including a lusty rendition of ‘Dogger Bank’, while ‘Deep Blue Sea’, ‘The Weary Cutters’ and ‘Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still’ are rather more forlorn tales of love lost at sea. Hunting songs abound with ‘Three Jolly Huntsmen’, ‘The Valentine’s Day Hunt', and ‘Poaching Song’, alongside celebrations of food, drink and general jollity including ‘The Harvest Jug’, the lively ‘Street Cries’, and ‘Celestial Tea’, their own style of drinking song.