Nick Drake - Pink Moon
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Free Music Review: another 5 star review
Hit: 5 Stars
I'd really love to give a different rating, for Nick you can't. So few bands or musicians or artists of any description can maintain a consistency throughout a career, and though it's doubtful Nick would have never set a foot wrong were he alive today, what he would have done following this masterpiece is fascinating. For me this is his peak, though it is very hard to compare any album with another since they sound as though they were done by three very different versions of Nick. Recurring themes of seasons, time and nature link them, as do the mellow introspection that brings you back and back, but it sounds sometimes that they should have been reversed. This is the sparse one, the low-fi one, the one that launched a thousand bedroom troubadours to write painfully intense and obtuse songs for themselves. An utter classic that seems never to age.Free Music Review: Classic
Hit: 5 Stars
There are three eseential Nick Drake albums: Five Leaves Left with its chamber folk, Bryter Layter with its huge arrangements. and Pink Moon.
Pink Moon is bassically Drake on solo accustic guitar. But Drake was no strummer. His complex composing and full guitar playing--he could strum, pick, and almost orchestrate with a simple accustic--make these full songs, rich in sound like jazz classical minitures.
The sad Drake alone is a whisful, poiniant experiance, and listening to the beatiful music on Pink Moon is a trip like few others--queiting and disquieting, sad and comforting.
Essential
Free Music Review: Missed Him in My Youth
Hit: 5 Stars
I missed Nick Drake in my youth (I am in my late fifties). My youngest son who plays the guitar and has a very eclectic library played him for me. His melancholy, intricate, complex use of the acoustic guitar and simple lyrics (In particular, I like "Road".) moves me. My only compaint is that "Paracite" sounds like "Dear Prudence" by the Beatles. The collection of music in "Pink Moon" is by far my favorite because it showcases Drake's guitar and voice and is not over-produced. This is not the case in Bryter Layter. I was dissapointed in the song "Fly", which in its original version, highlites his very intricate guitar work. In the remixed version of Bryter Layter, it is lost in the production. I would very much like to hear "Way of Blue" released on CD, but not if it ends up like "Bryter Layter".Free Music Review: Very wholesome
Hit: 5 Stars
I feel very pure when listening to this. The album is a journey from start to finish and is meant to be listened to in order...to feel the experience he's trying to invoke. At first I read into this album too much 'cause of the whole thing about his suicide and all that....I feel like this guy was rather young but intelligent. There's only one song with accompaniment, Pink Moon...has a piano that I think fits. I revisit this album on and off and like the subtlety and woodiness and purity of the songs. They don't hook me with the usual writer hooks. His voice reminds me of Donavan a bit and he's been compared to Van Morrison..but I think that it's only the time style of his stuff...the arrangement have simularity...but that's about it. It's a great album. I love it. (sorry about the randomness)Free Music Review: It's not Autechre, but it's great music!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is not at all my preferred style of music. These days I'm into Autechre, Pole, Oval and other eclectic electronica. Back in the seventies when this stuff was being penned and sung, I was into King Crimson, Led Zep and other much more electric and fraught stuff.
This CD blew me away when I first heard it last year (I also like "Way to Blue", despite its more produced and less minimalist ambience, which is what really appeals to me on this album). There is an integrity about these songs that belie their seeming simplicity. They create a sort of eerie maudlin warmth that really is unlike any other music I have ever heard.
Couldn't point out any standout tracks, 'cos they're all brilliant. Worth a listen, even if you aren't into seventies Brit-folk!