'Pink moon is on its way...' Read our review of Nick Drake's album to remember why he earned the admiration of artists ranging from R.E.M. to Elton John
’s third and last full album — and at less than 30 minutes, it can seem as starkly foreshortened as the singer’s life, which ended in 1974 when he was 26. But as one of Drake’s friends put it, “If something’s that intense, it can’t be measured in minutes.” Rousing himself out of one of the paralyzing depressions that plagued him in his last years, Drake recorded these 11 tracks in two nights, often in just one take.
By the time of these sessions, Drake had retreated so deeply into his own internal world that it is difficult to say what the songs are “about.” His lyrics are so compressed as to be kind of folkloric haikus, almost childishly simple in their structure and elemental in their imagery . His voice conveys, in its moans and breathy whispers, an alluring sensuality, but he sings as if he were viewing his life from a great, unbridgeable distance. That element of detachment is chilling.
It makes unfortunate sense in this age of marketing that what has partially rescued Drake from a quarter-century of obscurity is neither the admiration of artists ranging from R.E.M. to Elton John nor the generations of critics who have sung his praises, but. Lack of recognition in his lifetime deepened Drake’s constitutional despair and may well have contributed to his death from a drug overdose.
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