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‘The Dancing’ which opens the album is a bit too much of a slow burner for an opener and for me Apples doesn’t really start until ‘The Old Garden Gate’, the recognisable trad tune which Tabor really makes fly.

Andy Cutting’s diatonic accordion and pianos/strings from Mark Emerson are most of the accompaniment on Apples and they keep it very low key for the most part. Along with bassist Tim Harries they make a fairly formidable folk team doing a great job bringing out the tale, especially in ‘I Love My Love’. Where they excel is in creating the subtle atmosphere that makes this album.

‘Soldiers Three’ is the first track in which Tabor slips into French for this upbeat tale of threatening mercenaries and from this point Tabor switches between the two languages.

Apples has a quiet beauty which is its strength, and the menace of the album’s cover never dissipates completely in the background somewhere around the piano and the accordion.

Apples is realeased on Topic Records on 16 April.

Links:
www.junetabor.co.uk