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Reissue of the late British folk icon's 1969 debut album. Ten tracks. Island. Nick Drake's debut album encapsulates a marriage between folk music and the singer-songwriter genre. Part Donovan, part Jim Webb, he articulated an aching romanticism ... Full Descriptionat a time when progressive rock ran rampant. Beautiful melodies and fragrant accompaniment, in particular Robert Kirby's stunning string arrangements, enhance the artist's sense of longing in which warm, but understated, vocals accentuate the album's passive mystery. An aura of existential cool envelops the proceedings, accentuated by Danny Thompson's sonorous bass lines and Drake's poetic imagery. The result is a shimmering, autumnal collection, reflective but never morbid. It's a tragedy that Drake never lived to see how his stature has grown.
Personnel: Nick Drake (vocals, acoustic guitar, piano); Richard Thompson (electric guitar); Clare Lowther (cello); Paul Harris (piano); Tristan Fry (vibraphone, drums); Danny Thompson (bass); Rocki Dzidzornu (congas).
Entertainment Weekly (5/12/00, p.24) - "On his ageless debut, everything - Drake's lispy voice and delicate guitar fingerpicking, arranger Robert Kirby's stately strings - feels shrouded in mist....Drake's most glorious miniatures." - Rating: A
Q (11/99, p.162) - Included in Q Magazine's Best Folk Albums of All Time - "...The pinnacle of a melancholy canon of work so distinctive that admirers can only speculate miserably on what might have been."
Alternative Press (3/01, p.88) - "...With a voice paradoxically feather-light and grave, [one] of the most beautiful and melancholy albums ever recorded..."
Q (Magazine) (p.122) - "[T]he mesmerising beauty of such songs as 'Way To Blue' and 'Time Has Told Me' perfectly evoke a world of peaceful rumination far from all the city madness."
Mojo (Publisher) (7/00, p.99) - "...Represents the first flourish of promise....God, how damn confident it all sounds. He knew how good he was..."
NME (Magazine) (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #74 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums Of All Time.' Hide DescriptionPurchase Five Leaves Left CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Faust/So Far CD (1971)
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"At the Chime of a City Clock" finds Drake facing existential despair at every turn, despite an almost-lugubrious string arrangement. Perhaps the crucial moment of BRYTER LAYTER occurs on "Poor Boy," where female backing vocalists literally mock the singer's anguished laments. Clearly, for as much as Drake's heart and soul were bared in every note of his music, he was self-aware enough to ...
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The results of those solo sessions were as harrowing and stark as anything by Robert Johnson or Charley Patton. Enclosed in an inner world of psychological distress, Drake recorded PINK MOON's dispatches from a private hell that was simultaneously ...
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Ex-Byrd Gene Clark's early-'70s solo efforts, which rank alongside the recordings of the Flying Burrito Brothers and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young in terms of quality, vision, and appeal, have been unjustly overlooked. This is particularly true of NO OTHER, Clark's 1974 coup de grace. While the focus of NO OTHER's excellent predecessors WHITE LIGHT and ROADMASTER was on stripped down, passionate country-rock, NO OTHER pushes ...
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Three decades after British singer/songwriter Nick Drake's death, MADE TO LOVE MAGIC appeared, full of rare tracks and alternate versions, and intended as a "companion piece" to Drake's official recordings. While a number of the tracks appeared previously on the TIME ...
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Five Leaves Left Music Review Average Rating: (4.2 out of 5 stars)  great to hear again
glad thse came out on cd. nick drake gets forgotten a lot among fairport convention and the likes of the late 60s uk folk scene. to bad he was only around to record 3 albums. this was his best effort i thought A++
Submitted by SAXONMAN (long island new york) 
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This album is considered to be the best of Nick Drake, and from the initial notes, to the end, which comes far too early, it is not disappointing. Cello Song may well be one of those "sleeper-
classics". well crafted songs and intriguing lyrics. Richard Thompson guests on one track. If you have not heard this, and you appreciate accoustic oriented music, you will not be disappointed. Nick's baritone voice is lilting and plaintive in places, and draws you in.
Submitted by Jay B. (Cohutta, Ga, USA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No AMAZING
SUCH A SAD AND BEAUTIFULL ALBUM.PERFECT FROM BEGINNING TO END
Submitted by jupiteriousboy (Mexico City)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No  Is Nick related to Bruce?
This for me fills in a missing link ...and until I heard these samples I never really thought about where Bruce Cockburn might have come from...a whip-lash double-take might have resulted if I'd heard these sounds without a preface.( High Winds, White Sky or Night Vision )
Too bad I missed Nick.
Submitted by paul (whistler,bc,ca)
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A MELANCHOLIC ALBUM BY A MELANCHOLIC GUY
PEOPLE TALK A LOT ABOUT ATTITUDE. IT'S A KIND OF WORD DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING. BUT IN THIS CASE, THERE ISN'T ANOTHER WORD TO EXPRESS THE WORK OF NICK DRAKE IN GENERAL, NOR THIS ALBUM IN PARTICULAR. THE PROOF OF THE FEELINGS OF NICK AND OF THE INTENSITY OF HIS WORK IS HIS DEATH, AT 26 OR 27, I DON'T KNOW. BUT - EXCUSE ME FOR THE "CLICHE" -HIS MUSIC AND POETRY SURVIVE. ETERNAL!
Submitted by iendis (SAO PAULO, SP, BRAZIL)
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