Bryter Layter

Nick Drake - Bryter Layter

Bryter Layter
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Artist: Nick Drake
Brand: DRAKE,NICK
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: excellent
Rating: 4 Stars

Bryter Layter is Nick Drake working with expanded orchestrations. Five Leaves Left has subtle string, but here, horns and even female singers are added.

This almost sounds like Forever Changes, except that Love album ratiated Authur Lee as mastero, calling the shots. Drake seems to be a lone guitar player surrounded by adoring musicians on Bryrer Layer. His singing is mournful and self-effacing as ever.

Which makes the album so effective. The musical buffer around Drakes subtle voice only highlights his poetic modesty as a singer. The contrast of his insinuating singing and the big shell of the arrangements works wonders. Listen to "One Of These Things First,"
or "Chime of the city clock."

"Poor Boy" is a bit much. When the singers sing "poor boy, feels sorry for himself," towards Drake, it underminds the depths of his sadness. The whole piece is a little mellowdramatic and insulting to Drake, who was struggling with a serious mental illness.

But even this song is a good spin, and the album as a whole is top notch.

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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