Bryter Layter

Nick Drake - Bryter Layter

Bryter Layter
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Artist: Nick Drake
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-05-06
Music Label: Universal Import
Soundtracks:
  1. Introduction
  2. Hazey Jane II
  3. At the Chime of a City Clock
  4. One of These Things First
  5. Hazey Jane I
  6. Bryter Layter
  7. Fly
  8. Poor Boy
  9. Northern Sky
  10. Sunday

Music reviews of Bryter Layter

Music Review: A pretty little fever dream
Rating: 5 Stars

It's no Pink Moon, but that hardly matters. The important thing about Bryter Layter is that it's as sweeping and memorable and melancholic and uncannily beautiful as any other Nick Drake album, but that it's also more lush and intricate than anything else he's put out. He's backed by various Fairport Conventioneers as well John Cale on this album, and it shows; the songs are like siren coos seeping from a pastoral swath of English countryside, except that they're not weird and inaccessible like those of, say, Tim Buckley in his Starsailor period (not that Starsailor isn't a wonderful album, of course, it's just that it's a bit... well, weird and inaccessible). Drake's voice, which sounds like what would happen if velvet could sigh, is in fine form, and his maze-like guitar constructions are on display in all their universe-evoking glory. And there are also flutes and strings and pianos, and none of it sounds even remotely pretentious. The intricacy of Bryter Layter explodes like a flashbulb on "Poor Boy," which is an oceanic gospel-jazz odyssey with samba rhythms and ghostly backing vocals. "Hazy Jane I" sounds like being left by the love of your life on a gorgeous summer day, and "At The Chime Of A City Clock" is like winning her back in the dead of winter. "One Of These Things First" roils with quiet bitterness, and "Hazy Jane II" lets a sprightly soul rhythm percolate under a lyric that's rife with claustrophobic paranoia. "Northern Sky" is almost unbelievably gorgeous, and it contains every precious memory I have of my childhood, as well as the intense sense of loss I feel when it occurs to me that I've left those moments behind forever. There are some pretty instrumentals, too. Neat!

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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