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Review: 'VERCH, APRIL'
'The Newpart'   

-  Label: 'Slab Town Records'
-  Genre: 'Alt/Country' -  Release Date: '20th April 2015'-  Catalogue No: 'STR15-01'

Our Rating:
Take your partners and get ready for a hoedown. Well, kind of!

April Verch is a young fiddler, singer and stepdancer rolled into one who plays good time traditional music which takes form in 'The Newpart', the rehearsal space in a family room in the Ottawa Valley.

"These songs don't need to be revised" says Verch, highlighting the fact that she is not in the business of innovation or novelty. Her tenth album is community-centred 'social music' pure and simple.

As such, she sticks to basics by choosing warm-hearted bluegrass and old-time folk tunes with a hint of vaudeville or lively jigs designed to get people up and dancing.

The sugary sentiments of homely ballads like If You Hadn't Gone Away and I Heard The Bluebirds Sing are emphasised by her saccharine vocals so it comes as a relief when the instrumental passages are foregrounded.

Overall, the musicianship is beyond question but it's all a little too slick and controlled for my taste.

April Verch's website
  author: Martin Raybould

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VERCH, APRIL - The Newpart