Just Another Diamond Day

Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day
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Based on 5 reviews
1970 Ratings: #26 / 161
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Based on 452 ratings
1970 Rank: #27
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WhatTheFunk
83

The most peaceful record of all time? Probably.

It is the story of a young girl, lost in her dreams, her head in the clouds, her long hair waving in a benevolent wind, criss-crossing the countryside and villages of England in the late 1960s with her violin in her hand. Or maybe it was the 1560s? It doesn't matter. Vashti is as timeless and immaterial as the Mistral. Vashti is the rain that falls gently on a beautiful May evening. Vashti is the leaves flying away, swept away by the autumn gusts ... read more

Fantasio
82

Clear voice, absorbing folk songs, dreamy and catchy, almost forgotten but fortunately rediscovered, becoming kinda folk classic in during the 90s, Vashti Bunyan's debut and sole album for 35 years is a beautiful British folk gem.

Irissssssssssss
96

First off, thanks @KawaiiBoyGirl for this rec, I really loved it, second off, WE MAKIN IT OUT OF SERFDOM WITH THIS ONE!!! So yeah, this was simply a really pleasant experience. It’s mostly like these pretty simple chamber folk songs that sound like classic English and Scottish folk songs kinda, apparently inspired by Bunyan’s traveling of Scotland by horse and wagon the year before she released this which makes sense. It’s really just a very nice bunch of songs. None of them ... read more

denkirena
70

This was really cute.

Boydove
73

Very warm and cute

viperhag
95

This shit got me like :3

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Added on: June 20, 2014