Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
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Artist: Nick DrakeEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-05-06
Music Label: Umvd Import
Soundtracks:
- Introduction
- Hazey Jane II
- At The Chime Of A City Clock
- One Of These Things First
- Hazey Jane I
- Bryter Layter
- Fly
- Poor Boy
- Northern Sky
- Sunday
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Free Music Review: More Greatness From the King of Folk
Hit: 5 Stars
Well, you pretty much have no excuse for lending an ear to Nick Drake's three albums. Like many artists that manage to only release three albums, each of their records are so different and good that it's quality over quanity. While Drake's albums don't score a hat trick together, all of them are worth listening to, and all of them are quite stunning.
Nick Drake tried something new with Bryter Layter, and it sounds the best when the right mood hits (just like Nick Drake's other albums, actually).
Bryter Layter is lighter than the rest of the albums, and is brilliantly orchestrated. Drake still has that beautiful guitar playing, though I think his playing is less highlighted, not quite as shimmering as Five Leaves Left or Pink Moon, but it doesn't need to me. His voice is, as usual, stunning and evokes all kinds of things, his lyrics are as good as you'd expect from him, and the other instruments are brilliantly used, as they are also a highlighted part of the record.
As mentioned before, this is probably his most experimental of the three.
All kinds of things show up, like flutes, strings, piano, percussion, horns, saxophones, bells, John Cale, plodding drums, other kinds of guitars, and bass. It's closer to Chamber pop, or at least that's the best I can make a connection to, than folk music (at least in some of the songs). Three instrumentals also make the cut.
For the songs themselves, they all have quite to offer. The three instrumentals are all beautiful guitar pieces with other instrumentation evoking moods like you wouldn't believe. Some of it is indeed quite jazzy, like Poor Boy, which sounds actually like bossa nova at times. Northern Sky twinkles beautifully, as it's one of the best tracks on this album, and it's a love song that doesn't resort to cliches. The Hazey Jane songs, At the Chime Of A City Clock, no bad songs really. You get ten evoking pieces that shimmer with beauty, well your getting Nick Drake, and that says it all.
This album doesn't feature his best guitar playing (that belongs to Pink Moon), but it perhaps shows Nick Drake's amazing way of beauty, well, it's just a fantastic showcase for Nick Drake (hate to sound like the amazon editor's review, but it is). Nick Drake is the best folk artist in my opinion, and it shows in his three albums. Get it now.
9/10
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The second album from Nick Drake came in 1970, and while not quite as melancholy as his debut, Five Leaves Left, there are certain brooding qualities that continued to propagate the Nick Drake mystique. Horns, flute, and strings arrangements lift such songs as "At the Chime of a City Clock" and "Hazy Jane I" and "II" out of the realm of sad, folk-guitar music into something jazzier and lighter, while the beautiful piano and simple guitar of "One of These Things First" laments what could have been without sounding like a song of despair. But two tracks featuring John Cale on various instruments (such as viola and harpsichord) have the dark fragility of "Pink Moon": the lovely "Fly" is a fragile apparition, and "Northern Sky" is a dreamy, brooding plea for long-lasting love. Definitely not the same mood music as his starker work, but still a fine showcase for Nick Drake. --Lorry FlemingReissue of the late British folk icon's 1970 sophomore album. Ten tracks. Island.
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