NICK DRAKE - Bryter Layter LP outsider The album is ten tracks

The album is ten tracks of mood-filled music with sparse instrumentation and simple chord changes that paint pictures of stillness and calm

Opener “Curse From Beyond” is a celestial atmospheric piece akin to Dead Can Dance at their most mysteriously plaintive

There’s no paisley shirts

's "Beg Me" (a snappy garage/soul hybrid with horn section)

good-times adventure music

NICK DRAKE - Bryter Layter LP outsider The album is ten tracksTextured sleeve. Highly recommended. Nick's core base is of course the English folk sounds derived from his own past listening to Bert Jansch, Jackson C. Frank, and Donovan not to mention blues artists like Lightning Hopkins and Leadbelly. Introduced to this album are sympathetic styles such as bossanova, pastoral classical music, gospel soul music, and modal jazz. All of these new musics are inherently going to move his sound away from the solitary