A CAULDRON OF RANDOM NOTES

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Tasmin Archer's debut Great Expectations showed that a song's final form isn't the whole story and that an artist's best-known work is just a snapshot of wider influences. The Tracy Chapman and Seal comparisons fit, but the album also held '70s and '80s elements that shouldn't have worked together but did. Over time, her broader picture has come into focus: A Cauldron of Random Notes is not only a rewarding album on it's own terms, it increases the rewards of her entire catalogue by showing us the picture she's been assembling this whole time. In her 60s, Tasmin Archer has further illuminated what she was up to in her 20s.