Nick Drake "Pink Moon" 180gm LP
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Format: 180gm LP, gatefold cover, includes digital download
Label: Island/Universal
Released: 2013
Country: EU
"An authentic reproduction of the 1972 first pressing with original gatefold sleeve plus bonus voucher with a choice of download formats, including high definition 24 bit and dubbed from disc."
It's widely reported that by the time Nick Drake got around to recording his third and final album, PINK MOON, his already-precarious mental/emotional state had drastically deteriorated. In a deep depression, Drake recorded a brace of solo acoustic tunes, dropped the tape off unannounced at the label's office one day, and that was the last the world at large ever heard of Drake's music.
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 terrifying and beautiful. Both the lyrics and the melodic motifs are pared to the bone here, their simplicity making them all the more immediately striking. The most nakedly emotional and disturbing moment is probably "Parasite," a visceral-but-mysterious account of a disconsolate soul roaming through the world in search of succor, with Drake taking the starring role, ultimately offering, "take a look, you may see me in the dirt." This was the end of the road for Nick Drake in more ways than one, but just the beginning for the scores of songwriters subsequently inspired by his bleak-but-beautiful visions.
Tracklisting
- Pink Moon
- Place To Be
- Road
- Which Will
- Horn
- Things Behind The Sun
- Know
- Parasite
- Free Ride
- Harvest Breed
- From The Morning