The second album from the enigmatic
Bridget St John – and a slightly more expanded version of the sound explored on her debut!
Bridget's still very much in a folk-inspired sound here – but like the work of Nick Drake and some of her contemporaries on the British scene, this album has jazzier phrasings and some slightly baroque touches on some tunes – really deepening the feel of the songs, and giving the album a dark depth that we'd easily compare
with some of Drake's greatest work. Studio genius
Ron Geesin produced the set
with a surprising degree of subtlety – just the right amount of edgey undercurrents to unsettle the tunes nicely – never threatening
Bridget's presence on the album, but augmenting the moody spectrums that already came across so nicely on the first record. Titles include "A Day A Way", "City Crazy", "Back To Stay", "Seagull Sunday", "If You'd Been There", "Song For The Laird Of Connaught Hall (part 2)", "It Seems Very Strange", and a version of Donovan's "The Pebble & The Man".