Nick Drake – Bryter Layter Island ILPS 9134 reissue Palm Tree Labels 1978
£
100
$
133
Favourite Auctions
To save auctions to your favourites, please login
If you don't have an account, please register
Description
Nick Drake–Bryter Layter Island Records ILPS 9134 UK Reissue Vinyl, LP, reissued in 1978.
The vinyl appears to have been lightly played and is in lovely condition. It played through beautifully on my stereo - no stick or jump. The sleeve has some light ring-wear, but is otherwise in good condition, with no rips or writing. The spine is intact and legible. Matrix / Runout Side A : ILPS 9134 A-1U I-8 Matrix / Runout Side B : ILPS 9134 B-1U I-8
Bryter Layter is the second studio album by the English folk singer-songwriter Nick Drake. Recorded in 1970 and released on 5 March 1971 by Island Records, it was his last album to feature backing musicians, as his next and final studio album, Pink Moon, had Drake perform all songs solo.
Like Five Leaves Left, the album contains no unaccompanied songs: Nick Drake was accompanied by part of the British folk rock group Fairport Convention and John Cale from The Velvet Underground, as well as Beach Boys session musicians Mike Kowalski and Ed Carter. Arranger Robert Kirby says that Drake intended the instrumentals to evoke Pet Sounds. Initially scheduled for release in November 1970, with UK promotional copies being sent out at the time, dissatisfaction with the artwork meant that the album was held over into the New Year.
Contemporary reviews were mostly positive. In Sounds, Jerry Gilbert called the album "superb" and said, "On their own merits, the songs of Nick Drake are not particularly strong, but Nick has always been a consistent if introverted performer, and placed in the cauldron that Joe Boyd has prepared for him, then things start to effervesce." Gilbert praised the "splendid arrangements" of Robert Kirby, and said that the songs "take time to work through to the listener, with help from the beautiful backing which every track receives". Lon Goddard of Record Mirror was also impressed by Drake's guitar technique and Kirby's arrangements, and "Nick isn't the world's top singer, but he's written fantastic numbers that suit strings marvellously. Definitely one of the prettiest (and that counts!) and most impressive albums I've heard ... Happy, sad, very moving." "The Disc Panel" in Disc and Music Echo stated that Drake "sings his own very personal songs in a strange, deep vaseline voice, probably more suited to crooning, accompanied at times by really funky backing" and called the record "an extraordinarily good hefty folk album".
Mojo called the album "certainly the most polished of his catalogue". Alternative Press called it "[one] of the most beautiful and melancholy albums ever recorded".
price rating
![Born This Way [LP] by Lady Gaga (Vinyl, Jun-2011, 2 Discs, Interscope (USA))](https://www.popsike.mobi/php/thumbnail.php?url=https://www.popsike.pics/pix/20170811/232441751358.jpg)
![HAROLD BUTLER - MEDITATION HEIGHTS LP [ TOTAL SOUNDS ] [ JAN001 ]](https://www.popsike.mobi/php/thumbnail.php?url=https://www.popsike.pics/pix/20200114/174155586668.jpg)
