#679 Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left

All of Nick Drake's songs take place at night, if not in subject matter then in tone and feel and tenor and color. Here the nights are blue and cool, with watches of cloud and wave. Everything is infinite, folded in Drake's velvet delivery, couched in reed-bent acoustics, glistening with steel and string and wind, with sadness below the surface. Maybe that's the same sadness we'd get dragged into on the comparatively hopeless Pink Moon. Darkness creeps in again and again, but at least here the moon is clear, glowing spaces around the shadows 3.5/5