Nick Drake - Pink Moon
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Artist: Nick DrakeBrand: DRAKE,NICK
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2003-05-06
Music Label: Universal Import
Product features:
- DRAKE NICK PINK MOON
- Pink Moon
- Place to Be
- Road
- Which Will
- Horn
- Things Behind the Sun
- Know
- Parasite
- Free Ride
- Harvest Breed
- From the Morning
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Free Music Review: One Voice, One Guitar
Hit: 5 Stars
Bewitching beauty is the inescapable retreat that is Nick Drake's Pink Moon. Pleasantly melancholic tunes of one gentle voice singing heartfelt lyrics accompanied by the strings of a lone guitar that creates a slowly winding road of peace and serenity around you, total relaxation, and if you truly listen you will get lost in its beauty.
This is an absolutely amazing compilation of brilliance!
"Pink Moon" Opens with its title track, lightly versed, but accompanied by some incredibly corpulent acoustics with a bit of piano on the side for flavour. "I saw it written and I saw it say, Pink moon is on its way, And none of you stand so tall, Pink moon gonna get you all, It's a pink moon, Yeah it's a pink, pink, pink, pink, pink moon" Even though the lyrics are somewhat dismal, the strong feelings delivered by the combined voice of Nick and guitar on this one leaves you singing along while possibly playing a bit of air guitar and tapping out a few on the invisible ivories.
"Place to Be" (My absolute favourite!) Is enough to melt the heart of the hopeless romantic, but is emotional without getting too weepy, beautifully poetic without becoming pretentious ("Now I'm weaker than the palest blue, Oh, so weak in this need for you") Sit behind your sweetie, wrap your arms around them, and sing this one softly in their ear. Guaranteed meltdown!
"Road" Brings on a change in mood here and introduces you to the incredible talent of Nick's playing. Although this tune is lyric'd, I always find my self lost in the manipulation of strings. Incredibly this is one man with one guitar.
"Which Will" Is cloud soft and rain gentle in accompaniment, melded with introspective questioning lyrics. Beware, this one could be cathartic!
The instrumental "Horn" is extremely simplistic yet deeply complex, Drake doesn't need words to convey what he's feeling, and the mood comes across loud and clear.
The only way I can describe "Things Behind the Sun" would be a solemn rainy autumn day with contemplative breaks of sun within the glower. You almost have to wonder if this was the type of day that inspired this song because Drake captures the feeling so expressively. Great tune!
A simplified "Know" slows things down a bit with an almost painful southern spiritual sound backed by a seven note riff "Know that I love you, Know I don't care, Know that I see you, Know I'm not there"
The naked honesty of this album is at its most tortured on "Parasite", in which Drake sings one of the most gorgeously miserable, vivid depictions of the sensitive, self-loathing outcast. He plucks his guitar strings mournfully, deliberately, as he sings verses that are almost uncomfortably blunt "Changing a rope for a size too small, People all get hung." When he delivers the song's payoff line, it's soul-crushing "Take a look you may see me in the dirt, for I am the parasite who hangs from your skirt."
Drake's deft guitar playing shines on "Free Ride", a song with one of the more memorable pop hooks on the album.
"Harvest Breed" Is just a nice light little acoustic ditty that seems to clear the mind and begins to bring you back into the light, but the lyrics definitely contradict its melody. The mystifying genius behind this work as a whole.
As Pink Moon closes with the hopeful strains of "From the Morning", it's like seeing the first rays of sunlight glow on the horizon after the saddest night of your life, as Drake sings, almost optimistically "So look see the days, the endless colored ways, and go play the game you learnt, from the morning"
Pink Moon is one of the most musically stripped-down and emotionally naked albums I have ever heard. It is about us all, one of those rare works that truly speaks something to everyone.
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