Vashti Bunyan was an English folksinger who debuted in 1965 in the wake of Donovan, but had to wait five years before she could release a full-length album, Just Another Diamond Day (Islands, 1970 - Spinney, 2000). Helped out by Robin Williamson, Dave Swarbrick, Simon Nicol and others, she delivered psalms drenched in eastern mysticism but in the bucolic, idyllic tone of early Donovan. Songs ranged from a cappella (Window Over The Bay) to orchestral (Rose Hip November).

She disappeared for 30 years, until she was asked to guest on Piano Magic's Writers Without Homes (4AD, 2002). Her rediscovery peaked with the four-song EP Prospect Hummer (Fat Cat, 2005), a collaboration with Animal Collective.

After three decades and a half, a new album by Vashti Bunyan finally surfaced: Lookaftering (DiCristina Stair Builders, 2005), produced by German composer Max Richter. Backed by (among others) Mice Parade's Adam Pierce, Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom, and availing herself of Max Richter's discrete neo-classical orchestration, Bunyan picked up from where she left, her voice sounding virtually the same. If a bit of electronics sprinkled on Here Before and a domestic tone hijacking songs such as Here Before reveal that many years have gone by, the baroque Same But Different and the pastoral Hidden perfectly recreate the magic of the first album, while the Nick Drake-ian Turning Backs even ups the ante of her songwriting.

The double-disc Some Things Just Stick In Your Head (DiCristina, 2007) collects singles and rarities from 1964 to 1967.