| The Mill Pond | ||||
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| Released | April 1997 | |||
| Genre | Experimental, avant-garde | |||
| Label | Little Brother Records | |||
| Producer | Scott Colburn | |||
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The Mill Pond is a double-EP album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey, released in 1997. The release is a notable entry in Fahey's discography in that it features experimental music in the noise and drone styles.
The Mill Pond was originally released as a double 7" vinyl record. Only 1000 were made and it immediately went out of print. It was reissued on CD by Important Records in 2007. The reissue included a collection of 32 of Fahey's paintings in a cardboard folio.
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Dusted Magazine | (not rated) [2] |
Stewart Mason states in his Allmusic review: "... a frustratingly inconsistent minor work that's primarily of interest to hardcore John Fahey fans and students of the 1990s noise rock underground." [1] Dusted Magazine critic Bill Meyer wrote "No matter how you look at it, The Mill Pond is not a peak of John Fahey’s career... the music amongst the strangest and, in places, ugliest of his career." [2]
All songs by John Fahey.
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