Haunted Mountain
4AD
8/10
SHORTLY before Judee Sill died prematurely in her LA apartment in 1979, she left an entry in a journal. Forty-five years later, that journal was entrusted by Sill’s estate to Buck Meek after he appeared in a documentary about the singer. He turned this set of unfinished lyrics, dedicated to Sill’s boyfriend and his daughter, into “The Rainbow”, the final song on his third solo album. Lyrically, “The Rainbow” is a slender affair, a to Jolie Holland, who co-writes five of the 11 songs, including the album’s three standouts – the title track, “Paradise” and “Lullabies”.
