Nick Drake – Pink Moon (1972/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Nick Drake – Pink Moon (1972/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 28:04 minutes | 515 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Island

Revered British folk singer/songwriter who produced several albums of chilling, somber beauty and gained a cult following after his early death. Pink Moon, Nick Drake’s third and final album, was released on Island Records in the UK & US in 1972. Recorded November 1971, the album features only Nick’s vocals, guitar and piano. Once again, the set was engineered by John Wood at Sound Techniques Studios in South London. The song “Pink Moon” received tremendous exposure in 2000 when it was featured in the well-received Volkswagen commercial…

After two albums of tastefully orchestrated folk-pop, albeit some of the least demonstrative and most affecting around, Drake chose a radical change for what turned out to be his final album. Not even half-an-hour long, with 11 short songs and no more — he famously remarked at the time that he simply had no more to record — Pink Moon more than anything else is the record that made Drake the cult figure he remains. Specifically, Pink Moon is the bleakest of them all; that the likes of Belle and Sebastian are fans of Drake may be clear enough, but it’s doubtful they could ever achieve the calm, focused anguish of this album, as harrowing as it is attractive. No side musicians or outside performers help this time around — it’s simply Drake and Drake alone on vocals, acoustic guitar, and a bit of piano, recorded by regular producer Joe Boyd but otherwise untouched by anyone else. The lead-off title track was eventually used in a Volkswagen commercial nearly 30 years later, giving him another renewed burst of appreciation — one of life’s many ironies, in that such an affecting song, Drake’s softly keened singing and gentle strumming, could turn up in such a strange context. The remainder of the album follows the same general path, with Drake’s elegant melancholia avoiding sounding pretentious in the least thanks to his continued embrace of simple, tender vocalizing. Meanwhile, the sheer majesty of his guitar playing — consider the opening notes of “Road” or “Parasite” — makes for a breathless wonder to behold.

Tracklist:
01. Nick Drake – Pink Moon (02:02)
02. Nick Drake – Place To Be (02:40)
03. Nick Drake – Road (01:59)
04. Nick Drake – Which Will (02:56)
05. Nick Drake – Horn (01:21)
06. Nick Drake – Things Behind The Sun (03:56)
07. Nick Drake – Know (02:23)
08. Nick Drake – Parasite (03:33)
09. Nick Drake – Free Ride (03:01)
10. Nick Drake – Harvest Breed (01:35)
11. Nick Drake – From The Morning (02:33)

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