| The Mill Pond | |
| Type: | EP |
| Artist: | John Fahey |
| Cover: | The Mill Pond John Fahey.jpg |
| Released: | April 1997 |
| Genre: | Experimental, avant-garde |
| Label: | Little Brother Records |
| Producer: | Scott Colburn |
| Prev Title: | City of Refuge |
| Prev Year: | 1997 |
| Next Title: | Womblife |
| Next Year: | 1997 |
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.
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." 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."
All songs by John Fahey.