over the last year i've become a huge fan of vashti bunyan, the folk singer with the delicate voice responsible for the magnificent just another diamond day. last week i found an album of singles and demos from the mid 1960s called some things just stick in your mind. a lot of the songs are, stylistically at any rate, in the same vein as those on diamond day. having said that, the lyrical content is very far removed. as these songs were recorded before she began her journey across England by horse-drawn-cart, she had not yet written the songs of bucolic beauty found on diamond day. instead her songs are largely about loss and love, and the transience and complications of that very emotion. most emblematic of this feeling is someday, in which she arrives at the conclusion that love needn't always mean happiness. ultimately the album is a delectable curio, worth owning and cherishing.

Vashti Bunyan - Someday