Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
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Artist: Nick DrakeEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-05-06
Music Label: Umvd Import
Soundtracks:
- Introduction
- Hazey Jane II
- At the Chime of a City Clock
- One of These Things First
- Hazey Jane I
- Bryter Layter
- Fly
- Poor Boy
- Northern Sky
- Sunday
Music reviews of Bryter Layter
Music Review: 'Bryter Still'
Rating: 5 Stars
Aw no, not another hippy. Not another counter-culture lifestyle mullah. Ok, it looks that way but first, let's check Nick Drake's hippie-dom credentials;
1, Centre Parting ? - Check.
2, Floral Shirt/Dungarees ? - Check.
3, Being on Island Records ? - Check.
4, Standing in the woods with an acoustic guitar looking meaningful ? - Check.
So, he meets the criteria, but does he have a pleasing, cynic-bashing, soulful music, designed (in a genuinely conspiratorial sense ) to make your wobbling correspondent eat his facetious words with side-orders of tofu and quorn?
Of course he does, 'Bryter Layter' is yet another excellent surprise.
This one is screaming 'winner' before you even get to the music. The sleeve reveals he has John Cale and Richard Thompson (who is rapidly becoming one of my all time heroes) in tandem, so you instinctively know he's running from the winning blocks.
Drake's from the Cat Stevens school of smoothy folk-pop, but he's far from drone and earnestness. He's got torrential strings, ringing guitar, and more impressively, good songs in abundance. A big music (in a small sense) but it compliments his sweet lyrics and melodies without swamping them.
Thompson's influence is immeasurable. Not just here but in music generally. He's enriched works from Sandy Denny to David Thomas, and his enigmatic-isms are seized on by Drake who uses them as a platform for his own successes, a building-block to his own particularly pleasing house of tricks. On top, he's got the best use of flute and strings since Tull's sumptuous 'Reasons For Waiting', (which a fair block of 'BL' is very like) and a vital, vibrant album results.
Sure, Drake looks all Woodstock, wet and wimpy, but his voice has a sandpaper smoothness, and his songs very definitely have depth, insight and unity. He ticks the creative boxes much more than the (deliciously) sarcastic ones above, and therefore he emerges with kudos and no shortfall of credit.
He's nowhere near the genius Roy Harper is, (See? That Thompson again!) but 'BL' is firmly on the right track, and can fight it's corner with vim and plenty of pride.
So, puns well and truly on the back-burner, (and isn't it cute the way that my reviews are circular?) one last condition..
Does Nick Drake have a deserved 5-star brilliant album ? - Check.
Description of Bryter Layter
Reissue of the late British folk icon's 1970 sophomore album. Ten tracks. Island.The second album from Nick Drake came in 1970, and while not quite as melancholy as his debut, Five Leaves Left, there are certain brooding qualities that continued to propagate the Nick Drake mystique. Horns, flute, and strings arrangements lift such songs as "At the Chime of a City Clock" and "Hazy Jane I" and "II" out of the realm of sad, folk-guitar music into something jazzier and lighter, while the beautiful piano and simple guitar of "One of These Things First" laments what could have been without sounding like a song of despair. But two tracks featuring John Cale on various instruments (such as viola and harpsichord) have the dark fragility of "Pink Moon": the lovely "Fly" is a fragile apparition, and "Northern Sky" is a dreamy, brooding plea for long-lasting love. Definitely not the same mood music as his starker work, but still a fine showcase for Nick Drake. --Lorry Fleming
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