Judee Sill - Heart Food - Hybrid SACD

2022 reissue

The second album Judee Sill made proved to be her last. This brief though enjoyable outing took its toll on Sill - a notoriously slow songwriter - during its making, turning her back to her recently kicked heroin addiction and away from the desire to create more music. Instead of using an outside arranger for the strings (as she did on her previous album), Sill did all of the work herself. Her lack of formal training and the immense amount of orchestral overdubs certainly would have made such an outing a hardship for anyone. The album doesn't suffer much from its sometimes syrupy exterior, though - the songs are almost as strong as any of those from her debut. To wit, Heart Food suffers only in comparison to its predecessor; otherwise, it's a stellar example of the kind of singer/songwriter fare the music industry was mining in the early '70s. The supporting cast of top L.A. studio musicians solidifies Sill's unique brand of country-flavored pop, which moves from introspective meanderings to loping rock, often within a single song.

Alex Stimmel, AllMusic

Rapturous and otherworldly.
Rolling Stone

 ... it's hard to suppress the inner light of Sill's work. It shines.
Pitchfork

Heart Food is mastered Direct-to-DSD from the original analog master tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio. This is the same mastering as Intervention's acclaimed double 45-RPM vinyl reissues!

The master tapes are in beautiful shape, and listeners will be blown away by the revelatory inner detail and three-dimensionality retrieved from these achingly gorgeous recordings. These new Intervention reissues represent THE definitive listening experience for these classic LPs!