View basket “Like An Old Fashioned Waltz” has been added to your basket. Lookaftering Vashti Bunyan SKU: FATLP38 Barcode: 0600116993816 19.00 £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Fat Cat Released Date: 5th December 2014 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info It’s not often you come across an artist you can genuinely refer to as a ‘cult legend’, but Vashti Bunyan is truly that. A full 35 years on from her only previous album, the singer returns with her first new solo work, a breathtakingly beautiful album. Far from being simply some kind of appendage tacked onto the end of an amazing story and a past classic, ‘Lookaftering’ is a fully beautiful album in its own right. Produced by fellow Edinburgh resident Max Richter (whose ‘Blue notebooks’ album was released on FatCat’s 130701 imprint in 2004) – who also co-arranged with Vashti, it’s a rich, beautifully arranged and stirring album. Developing gradually and organically – with work initially taking place between Max and Vashti’s homes, and then at various studios in Edinburgh, London and Glasgow – ‘Lookaftering’ is anchored around Vashti’s voice and picked acoustic guitar, and Max’s piano playing and co-arranging. Its instrumentation includes a string quartet, oboe, harp, French horn, recorder, flute, hammer dulcimer, glasses, harmonium, and Rhodes piano, and it features contributions from Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, Adem, Adam Pierce (Mice Parade), Robert Kirby (Nick Drake / etc.), Otto Hauser and Kevin Barker (Espers / Currituck County) As well as a neat balance between gentle, sparse songs and heavier, more orchestrated numbers, there is a beautiful play between the lush instrumental arrangements and the incredibly intimate, in-your-ear presence of Vashti’s voice. There’s a real honesty to the album – from the fragile intimacy of the vocal itself to the stories it weaves. Just as ‘Diamond Day’ was a very pure document of a journey, ‘Lookaftering’ is similarly based on stories taken directly from lived experience (the death of a brother; the joys / fears of motherhood; the tension between freedom / commitment and travel / domesticity). There’s also a great integrity forged from the cohesiveness between lyrical content and musical form (the gentle rolling and pitching of the melodies on ‘Same But Different’; the vocal roundelay on ‘Here Before’; the ice-shiver of dulcimer on ‘Turning Backs’). The album title itself, a personalised word that describes the role of “taking care of someone – human or animal – or even something that needs to be done, that needs lookaftering.” “Her work is a testament to the power of even the quietest music to help us feel things deeply, an experience that lasts for a few minutes that we can return to for a lifetime.” – Pitchfork Artist Vashti Bunyan Genre Folk Label Fat Cat Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings 1: Lately 2: Here Before 3: Wayward 4: Hidden 5: Against The Sky 6: Turning Backs 7: If I Were 8: Same But Different 9: Brother 10: Feet Of Clay 11: Wayward Hum Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Vashti Bunyan and more from Folk View Product Quick View Vashti Bunyan Just Another Diamond Day Folk | Branch Music | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released 27th January 2023 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Vashti Bunyan Just Another Diamond Day £23.00 Genre: Folk Label: Branch Music SKU: BRANCH002LPW Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 27th January 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Vashti Bunyan Just Another Diamond Day Folk | Branch Music | 180g, 1LP Released 29th March 2019 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Vashti Bunyan Just Another Diamond Day £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Branch Music SKU: BRANCH002LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 29th March 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Vashti Bunyan Heartleap Folk | Fat Cat | 1LP Released 6th October 2014 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Vashti Bunyan Heartleap £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: Fat Cat SKU: FATLP131 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 6th October 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Vetiver Up On High Folk | Loose Music | 1LP Released 1st November 2019 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Vetiver Up On High £18.00 Genre: Folk Label: Loose Music SKU: VJLP251 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 1st November 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View King Creosote Astronaut Meets Appleman Folk | Domino | 1LP, Includes 10", Includes Download Code Released 30th August 2016 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders King Creosote Astronaut Meets Appleman £25.00 Genre: Folk Label: Domino SKU: WIGLP385X Formats: 1LP, Includes 10", Includes Download Code Released Date: 30th August 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bob Dylan & Joan Baez Voices of a Generation Folk | Not Now Music | 2LP Released 1st October 2013 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bob Dylan & Joan Baez Voices of a Generation £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Not Now Music SKU: LPNOT2LP173 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 1st October 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Buffy Sainte-Marie Power In The Blood Folk | True North Records | 1LP Released 25th May 2018 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Buffy Sainte-Marie Power In The Blood £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: True North Records SKU: TND603V Formats: 1LP Released Date: 25th May 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View David John Morris Monastic Love Songs Folk | Hinterground Records | 1LP Released 21st May 2021 £19.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations David John Morris Monastic Love Songs £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Hinterground Records SKU: HINT003LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 21st May 2021 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Mawkin The Ties That Bind Folk | Goodform Records | 1LP Released 17th July 2015 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mawkin The Ties That Bind £17.00 Genre: Folk Label: Goodform Records SKU: MKN004VINYL Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th July 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders On Sale View Product Quick View Native Harrow Closeness Folk | Loose Music | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 18th September 2020 £12.99 - 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