Lovely write up. It has been decades since I’ve played a Nick Drake album in its entirety and your post is a reminder that I ought to do so. I hadn’t seen his albums as split half full/empty (not your words, but the gist) before and that likely is due to my lack of lyrical attention.
As a lover of a gorgeous sentence, your last -- “even Sunday is sitting in Saturday’s sun, weeping for a day gone by as the delicate and melancholic forty-one minutes that preceded it comes to a close” -- is sublime.
"I first heard Nick Drake's ‘River Man’ on a Chill Out complication cover-mounted CD from Q magazine in Nov 2000." Aha, I had almost exactly the same introduction, although mine was "One Of These Things First", possibly on am NME CD, but definitely late 2000.
"Northern Sky" is a beautiful, beautiful song. That must have been lovely.
Lovely write up. It has been decades since I’ve played a Nick Drake album in its entirety and your post is a reminder that I ought to do so. I hadn’t seen his albums as split half full/empty (not your words, but the gist) before and that likely is due to my lack of lyrical attention.
As a lover of a gorgeous sentence, your last -- “even Sunday is sitting in Saturday’s sun, weeping for a day gone by as the delicate and melancholic forty-one minutes that preceded it comes to a close” -- is sublime.
"I first heard Nick Drake's ‘River Man’ on a Chill Out complication cover-mounted CD from Q magazine in Nov 2000." Aha, I had almost exactly the same introduction, although mine was "One Of These Things First", possibly on am NME CD, but definitely late 2000.
"Northern Sky" is a beautiful, beautiful song. That must have been lovely.