1998’s Fete Foraine takes five tracks from the Apartments’ 1995 masterpiece A Life Full of Farewells and two tracks apiece from 1985’s The Evening Visits and 1992’s Drift and recasts them with simple arrangements of piano, guitar and flugelhorn. The stripped-down intimacy is a suitably solemn alternate listen to one of Australia’s most impressive cult singer-songwriters, Peter Milton Walsh. With songs as beautifully expressive as “Knowing You Were Loved,” “Not Every Clown Can Be In the Circus,” “Thank You For Making Me Beg,” and the classic hit that never was, “Things You’ll Keep,” (in an upbeat, manic form), Walsh raises the bar for all potential comers. His singing, which once swung towards exuberant over-emotionalism, settles into mature artistry, melting into the arrangements and flowing with the dynamics. This is what adult-contemporary pop should sound like: elegant without sacrificing its primal and carnal truths.