Nick Drake

Nick Drake's final album overflows with bleak, gorgeous folk songs that manage to be both lush and harrowing. His spare guitar strumming and far-away voice somehow sound fully orchestrated. Simple, stark and stunning -- this is some of the finest music you'll ever hear come out of an acoustic guitar.

Pink Moon is folk icon Nick Drake's third and last full album - and at less than thirty minutes,
it can seem as starkly foreshortened as the singer's life, which ended in 1974 when he was
twenty-six. 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 eleven tracks in two nights,... More >