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Nick Drake - Bryter Layter

Bryter Layter

by Nick Drake

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Released
26/06/2000
Music Genre
Folk

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Description

After crafting a debut album full of beauteous, somber chamber-folk, Nick Drake pulled something of an about-face with the follow-up, BRYTER LAYTER. With a bright, sparkling production and orchestrations that occasionally border on Easy Listening, the framework is light and airy where FIVE LEAVES LEFT was dark and foreboding. The key, however, is that Drake's artfully expressed inner turmoil peeks through at every turn in the lyrics and in his understated-but-heartfelt vocal delivery. "At the Chime of a City Clock" finds Drake facing existential despair at every turn, despite an almost-lugubrious string arrangement. Perhaps the crucial moment of BRYTER LAYTER occurs on "Poor Boy," where female backing vocalists literally mock the singer's anguished laments. Clearly, for as much as Drake's heart and soul were bared in every note of his music, he was self-aware enough to know that his disillusioned-romantic view of the world was one that put him on the fringes of society. Of course, some 25 years later, his early-1970s work would find a much wider audience, even though the initial era of the sensitive singer/songwriter had long since passed.

Product Details

Artist
Nick Drake
Year of release
2000
Label / Studio
UMA
Media Content Format
Album
WOW HD Sales Rank
#7044
Media Format
Audio CD
Recording Environment
Studio
Number of Discs
1
Run Time (minutes)
39
Original year of release
1970
CD 30days Sales Rank
#5473
Cast & Crew
Nick Drake (Music Performer)
Joe Boyd (Producer)
John Wood (Sound Engineer)

Press Reviews

...With a voice paradoxically feather-light and grave, [one] of the most beautiful and melancholy albums ever recorded... Alternative Press (3/01, p.88)

The exquisiteness of the first album is expanded upon in 'Hazey Jane I', 'Fly' and a genuinely optimistic love song, 'Northern Sky'..." - Rating: B+ Entertainment Weekly (5/12/00, p.24)

...Certainly the most polished of his catalog....[It[ begins to suggest a whole other tableau of unexplored possibilities....God, how damn confident it all sounds. He knew how good he was... Mojo (7/00, p.99)

Ranked #14 in NME's list of The Greatest Albums Of The '70s. NME (9/18/93, p.19)

Included in Q's "5 Best Re-Issues of 2000". Q (1/01, p.95)

Ranked #23 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" - "...Few songwriters have given such perfect voice to the England of dreaming spires, tea cups and quiet desperation... Q (6/00, p.76)

Tracklisting

Disc 1:

  1. Introduction
  2. Hazey Jane
  3. At the Chime of a City Clock
  4. One of the Things First
  5. Hazey Jane
  6. Bryter Layter
  7. Fly
  8. Poor Roy
  9. Northern Sky
  10. Sunday
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