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NICK DRAKE - Family Tree
| DustedMagazine | | Though it certainly wasn’t the case during his lifetime, the popular and critical response that’s greeted Nicholas Rodney Drake’s life and music over the past two decades has been exhaustive. From record label retrospectives to BBC documentaries, attention has focused on a discography both brilliant and brief, and on a biography that – rather unfortunately – buoys romantic notions about art, addiction and illness. In cases like Drake’s, the collective always manages to plunge the dipper even deeper into a well that, one would think, had long gone dry. Hence the arrival of Family Tree, a 28-song collection that Drake recorded on a reel-to-reel prior to the release of his landmark debut, Five Leaves Left....full text |
| | Uncut | Listen to Nick Drake with one ear and you'll hear a (self-)parody of the Sensitive Young Troubadour – the posh Poor Boy, long ways from his country home. There's a peculiarly English bashfulness to Drake that suggests some coy conflation of Donovan and Colin Blunstone.
Listen with both ears and you hear the monkish beauty of that light baritone alongside its close companion – Drake's inimitably intricate fingerpicking. Together these intertwined "voices" create a melancholic magic that sounds completely unique to this day....full text |
| | PrefixMag | | With Family Tree, a twenty-eight track compilation featuring unreleased tracks, rare covers and outtakes, the number of posthumous Nick Drake releases now outnumbers his proper album output by two to one. (He released three studio albums before dying in 1974 at age twenty-six; the apparent cause was an overdose of anti-depressants.) But unlike those for such artists as Jimi Hendrix or Tupac Shakur, these excursions into Drake's back pages resemble not so much an aural necrophilia-for-profit as they do an attempt to shed light on Nick Drake the Enigma -- a deeply troubled young man who rarely gave interviews or performed live; of whom there is not one pixilated motion picture, only still photos; who quietly recorded his moving, acoustic-laden folk albums and then sent them out into the world with little to no fanfare....full text |
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