vashti bunyan
MP3: Vashti Bunyan - I’d Like To Walk Around In Your Mind
(London, 2:16mins, 160 kbps)
‘I’d like to walk’ is soulful, and isolated in the way you look upwards on a clear day and there she is, hovering in the sky, half transparent, a voice as light as clouds, paintings images of regret, love and pink sugar elephants between the stars, through the wind; you will forget these songs quickly, but pick them up often.
Vashti Bunyan recently presented us with an album of some of her demos and singles from 1964-1967, but her lighter and compelling psych-folk demos are hardly cast offs, and exist on the edge of a nonchalant side of pop music that just has to be the rooted in the 1960s. ‘I’d like to walk around in your mind’ is track 7 out of 25 blissful and spookish tracks that are rich and lonely in an exposed, and honest sort of way. Its hardly dynamic but this isn’t an album concerned with quick judgements and spontaneity, but with romanticism and thoughts that last for a decade: hardly a eureka moment: this takes time to rise, set, and come to fruition.
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“Some things just stick in your Mind”, released a month ago, highlights an extraordinary raw talent, a few years before her seminal release “Just a diamond day”.
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Indie Pan-Pipes for your it’s almost Friday, so it’s almost the weekend, mid-week blues/ feigned optimism
