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Sat 11 Nov 2009Deja vu after 35 years of silence
IT HAS BEEN SAID that a musician has a lifetime to make their first album and a few months to make their second. The flipside of this cliché is the “difficult” second album, writes SINÉAD GLEESON
Singer Vashti Bunyan ignored the former and personifies the latter, given a 35-year gap between projects. Just Another Diamond Dayappeared in 1970 and its follow-up didn’t surface until 2005. “It felt like more of a bookend, really. Just Another Diamond Daywas a very forward-looking album, whereas Lookaftering is about looking back,” says Bunyan.
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