I'm always a bit curious when people dislike Nick Drake. In a way perhaps its understandable. There's something of the portentous, 'I know more than you', hippie mystic about him and his music. Some of his early imagery and characterisation doesn't stand up. He did well to pare it down to he absolute bare bones for Pink Moon. Giacomo and Jeremy in this song sound frankly irritating. But the guitar, the arrangement and above all the space do it for me. Nobody created quiet space and stillness quite so effectively as Drake. Silence too if that makes sense..
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