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With his Appendix Out venture becoming less pastoral and more pop, creaky-crooning neo-folkie Ali Roberts steps out under his own name, on his own, in a most folk-singing manner. Faithful to the aural tradition of British folk music, Roberts sets his quiet voice to 12 traditional odes, joined only by the quietest of guitar playing. With nods to such iconic folk folk as Anne Briggs, Shirley Collins, Nic Jones, and Dick Gaughan — credited in the liners for teaching Roberts such songs — the set is a hushed, quiet, slow and somber take on these tunes, in keeping with modern musical melancholy and Roberts' own deployments of Oldham-ish murmur-and-strum. That said, it's a sterling set, Roberts being blessed with a voice that brings the occasionally quaint lyrical turns to life, moving with the good grace and humble ways Appendix Out left behind after their first album.
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