NICK DRAKE - PINK MOON - 1ST PRESSING ISLAND PINK RIM IN SHRINK VERY MINTY
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Up for auction is Nick Drake’s classic “Pink Moon” LP. This is an original US pressing on the Island label with the pink rim!! This is a very minty NM LP played maybe once! Vinyl comes in original sleeve. Cover is an equally beautiful gatefold in NM condition with complete original SHRINK!!! A beautiful near mint copy. Cover and sleeve has a promo punched hole in upper right corner. Email me with any questions and be sure to look at the pic’s. I do not accept bids from or ship to Italy. International bidders can email me for shipping rates. Good luck!
NICK DRAKE’S “PINK MOON”
AN ORIGINAL CLASSIC IN NEAR MINT CONDITION WITH THE SHRINK!!!
Music Review from AllMusic.com by Ned Raggett
After two albums of tastefully orchestrated folk-pop, albeit some of the least demonstrative and most affecting around, Drake chose a radical change for what turned out to be his final album. Not even half-an-hour long, with 11 short songs and no more -- he famously remarked at the time that he simply had no more to record -- Pink Moon more than anything else is the record that made Drake the cult figure he remains. Specifically, Pink Moon is the bleakest of them all; that the likes of Belle and Sebastian are fans of Drake may be clear enough, but it's doubtful they could ever achieve the calm, focused anguish of this album, as harrowing as it is attractive. No side musicians or outside performers help this time around -- it's simply Drake and Drake alone on vocals, acoustic guitar, and a bit of piano, recorded by regular producer Joe Boyd but otherwise untouched by anyone else. The lead-off title track was eventually used in a Volkswagen commercial nearly 30 years later, giving him another renewed burst of appreciation -- one of life's many ironies, in that such an affecting song, Drake's softly keened singing and gentle strumming, could turn up in such a strange context. The remainder of the album follows the same general path, with Drake's elegant melancholia avoiding sounding pretentious in the least thanks to his continued embrace of simple, tender vocalizing. Meanwhile, the sheer majesty of his guitar playing -- consider the opening notes of "Road" or "Parasite" -- makes for a breathless wonder to behold. If anyone needs confirmation as to why artists like Mark Eitzel, Elliot Smith, Lou Barlow, or Robert Smith hold Drake close to their hearts, it's all here, still as beautiful as the day it was released.
On Mar-26-12 at 16:55:55 PDT, seller added the following information:
Bidders from outside the USA please wait for invoice with exact shipping costs.
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