Music Review // Vincent Yelle "Apples & Honey"
Music that has a strong connection to nature has always felt important. The idea of this album being titled "Apples & Honey" just makes me think about everything that comes with Autumn and so it hits a little bit harder since we are also very much in that season. Other aspects of the lyrics do make this feel like it's connected to nature, but for the most part this is also an album made up of songs that carry dreamy acoustics with them, like Elliott Smith, and in that way it also feels like something you could just take a guitar into the middle of the woods and play.
Through these delicate notes the songs not only tell a story but the collected songs seem to tell an overall tale. The titular track has the lines: "You held my arms and said / 'Never let me go' oh no / But then I let you go" which are followed up by "Take my hand and we'll erase / The bitterness of yesterday". This feels like a song about healing in that way and I know that Autumn is when dead leaves fall off of trees, but I've always felt like Autumn going into Winter was a time for reflection and change, so you could emerge a new and better person in the Spring time.
The sounds of birds are on the instrumental song "Passing" and then the next song is titled "Berry Bunny", more elements of nature. During this song there is the line "Oh I love you no matter what" and there are also these spoken words- which are in French- that go along with the sound of a child. In that sense, I feel like this song at least (and in a broader sense the entire album) has that connection of a parent to a child. This is, in and of itself, a large part of nature as when you look at animals such as birds and bunnies, their prime directive is to protect their young.
What I lke most about these songs by Vincent Yelle is that you could very easily just think of them as being these beautiful, precise acoustic melodies, but at the same time there is just so much more happening not only in the music but in the lyrics. "Hydra" can pick up to where it feels more like a pop song with percussion and "Finally at Peace" has more isolated notes. Each song definitely has an idea that you can take from the lyrics, but when you put them all together the pieces begin to show you the bigger picture revealed.
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