Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering (Expanded Edition)

Vashti Bunyan’s ‘Lookaftering’ is 20 years old. To mark the occasion, and also Vashti’s 80th birthday, an expanded edition is to be released on double vinyl LP.

As well as the original studio album itself, the second disc features demo versions, alternate takes and live performances of all the original album tracks.

This edition also comes with sleeve notes from Vashti, producer Max Richter, Devendra Banhart and a 16-pagelyric booklet featuring a collection of paintings by Vashti's daughter Whyn Lewis - paintings that closely, and coincidentally, reflected the lyrics of the album.

Dating from 2001 to 2005, the demos were recorded at home by Vashti, accompanying herself on acoustic and electric guitar and experimenting with synths - from pianoto strings, pipe organ, harmonium, recorders and accordion. The sound is, of course, stripped back compared to that of the finished album, but the live version of ‘Lately’ recorded at an early ‘comeback’ gig in LA in 2006, orchestrated as on the record, is absolutely pitch perfect.