It\u2019s a shame he didn\u2019t hang around for a while longer. Nick Drake committed suicide in 1974 at the age of 26. He had recorded three albums before his death; Pink Moon<\/i> was his third and final album. Pink Moon<\/i> consists of only Drake\u2019s vocals accompanied by his guitar. The only exception is the album opener, the title track \u201cPink Moon,\u201d which features a piano played by Drake himself.<\/p>\n
\u201cPink Moon\u201d is one of his most well-known songs and that is because it is so very simple and just utterly beautiful. The next track, \u201cPlace To Be,\u201d is equally good. Nick Drake\u2019s guitar playing is brilliant and his lyrics are, too. \u201cRoad\u201d features some of the most stunning guitar playing I\u2019ve ever heard on an acoustic record like this. It\u2019s a song of breathtaking beauty and at the same time so depressing it\u2019s hard to listen to. After the release of his second album, Bryter Layter<\/i>, Nick Drake became horribly depressed and apparently never fully recovered. His previous records were very, very melancholy at times but never so tormented and discouraged as Pink Moon.<\/i><\/p>\n
Pink Moon<\/i>\u2019s second half is magnificent. \u201cFree Ride,\u201d (as it is called on most of the reissues, \u201cFree Ride\u201d is also how it is named in Nick Drake\u2019s handwritten lyrics) with its awe-inspiring guitar part is one of Drake\u2019s best. \u201cThings Behind The Sun\u201d is one of the most astonishing singer-songwriter\/folk masterpieces ever written.<\/p>\n
Pink Moon<\/i> is startling and emotional but never sentimental, subtle but never boring. It sometimes sounds a bit like Elliott Smith mixed with Van Morrison or Velvet Underground. It contains bits of folk and traces of blues and it never gets too complicated, but as a whole, it sounds pretty unique. The wonderful guitar playing sounds great with his warm, mellow voice. Nick Drake managed to record his suffering and it came out beautifully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":30477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8638],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-42142","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-nick-drake","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42142"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}