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Dec 18, 2013It’s a fascinating and most worthy archival release.
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Dec 8, 2014While not quite holding the warmth or approachability of other "unearthed" recordings of its ilk, this compilation is essential listening for anyone who's ever been fascinated with Nick Drake's impenetrable, gorgeous sadness.
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Dec 18, 2013Despite her amateur standing--she never once supposed these tapes would be made public--there's a keen poetic sensibility at work.
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Dec 18, 2013Drake is revealed as a serious artist whose gossamer-light songs can sound painfully vulnerable, and there's more than a bit of black dog in the poems.
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Mar 24, 2014This is Molly Drake’s record, her story, and she tells it with heartbreaking beauty.
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The WireJan 30, 2014Though there's something inevitably ghoulish about the reception afforded these piano and vocal pieces--released for the first time on vinyl in 2013--it would be perverse to deny that they serve as a curious prologue to Drake the younger's brief but brilliant career. [Feb 2014, p.61]