Just Another Diamond Day is a legendary folk album whose legend draws in part from what it presaged, which was nothing. After releasing her lone masterpiece in 1970, Vashti Bunyan vanished, leaving London for a pastoral life in which songs with abundant flutes and lyrics about glowworms could make as much or as little sense as they wanted. Bunyan associated with the major players of the era's burgeoning English folk scene—Diamond Day was recorded by Nick Drake/Fairport Convention producer Joe Boyd—but her music still sounds too personal and rarefied to slot in with a movement marked by concrete places and names.
