Vinyl Record
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Nick Drake - Pink Moon on LP vinyl. A 1972 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 1972
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 1972 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Pink Moon is Nick Drake's 1972 final studio album, a record so bare that it can feel less produced than left behind. After the arranged beauty of Five Leaves Left and the brighter chamber-pop movement of Bryter Layter, Drake returned with a short, stark set built almost entirely from voice and acoustic guitar, with only a brief piano figure on the title track widening the frame. Pink Moon, Place To Be, Road, Which Will, Things Behind The Sun, Parasite and From The Morning do not dramatise loneliness; they let it stand in the room without furniture. The album's austerity has often been folded into the story of Drake's illness and early death, but its musical achievement is more precise than biography alone. The guitar tunings, rhythmic poise and melodic turns are intricate, even when the surface seems almost emptied out. Released in 1972 to little commercial impact, Pink Moon became one of the great posthumous rediscoveries: an album whose quietness grew louder as listeners learned how little it needed.
Pink Moon matters because it is one of the clearest examples of minimal means carrying enormous emotional and musical weight. In 1972, Drake stripped away the arrangements that had framed his earlier work and made a final album where voice, guitar, silence and sequence do nearly everything.
For collectors, Pink Moon is the indispensable Nick Drake LP and one of the central singer-songwriter records of the 1970s. It belongs beside the first two albums, but its shelf identity is singular: short, severe, intimate and powerful enough to define Drake for many later listeners.
Stark acoustic folk with close vocals, intricate fingerpicked guitar, alternate tunings, almost no ornament, a brief piano touch and an atmosphere of private midnight clarity.
Recommended for: Listeners seeking the most concentrated Nick Drake album; Collectors of essential 1970s singer-songwriter records; Fans of minimal acoustic music with deep emotional charge.
When was Pink Moon released? Pink Moon was released in 1972 as Nick Drake's third and final studio album. Why does Pink Moon sound so sparse? The album is built almost entirely around Drake's voice and acoustic guitar, with only a short piano part on the title track. Which Pink Moon songs are essential? Pink Moon, Place To Be, Road, Things Behind The Sun, Parasite and From The Morning define the album's concentrated emotional world.