There seems to be a harking back to the slightly anodyne music of our recent ancestors among prominent singers at the moment. Greta Bradman has liberally raided the record collection of her grandfather, cricketing legend Sir Donald, for two recent albums, and now it’s the turn of Kiwi baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes to steer us down the windy road to nostalgia.

Perhaps it’s the age of anxiety we live in that makes these artists turn to the past, although two of the songs, Roses of Picardy and Comrades of Mine, are inextricably linked to the Great War. In among the folk offerings from Ireland, Australia and New Zealand – including Po Atarau,...