Sunday, January 29, 2012

Enjoying Drake's first flowering

It's a quiet SUNDAY morning, with coffee to sip and NICK DRAKE music to enjoy.
I'm listening to "FIVE LEAVES LEFT," the 1969 debut described by writer R.J. Smith in a 2001 Los Angeles Magazine article as an album "full of vivid, precise string arrangements and mixed feelings."
Drake's music can haunt unlike any other I have heard. It could be the whispering vocals married to the grave lyrics, or it could be what we have all learned about Drake -- a career of inexplicably missed commercial success abruptly cut short by a fatal overdose of antidepressants.
Smith writes:
"He seemed to just appear one day, with a fully bloomed guitar style and voice that sounded like something off the moors. Then, almost as quickly, he stopped coming by."
"BRYTER LAYTER" and the stark "PINK MOON" are Drake's other towering classics, and I love hearing them, too.
However, this morning just seems more suited to Drake's first flowering.

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