Nick DrakeBest Nick Drake Albums Ranked

The Making Of Five Leaves Left

thelineofbestfit

10

“Nick Drake’s Five Leaves Left revisited in a definitive release”

The Making Of Five Leaves Left

pitchfork

9.0

“The songwriter’s 1969 debut was overstuffed with strings, congas, and piano. A new box set offers a trove of uncluttered renditions of its songs—and a more direct view of Drake’s early genius.”

Made to Love Magic

rollingstone

8.0

“British folk-rock troubadour Nick Drake died from an overdose of anti-depressants in 1974. He was only twenty-six and had recorded just three proper albums — 1969’s Five Leaves Left, 1970’s Bryter Layter, 1972’s Pink Moon — and a pile of scattered tracks. But when the tape recorder was turned on, he had a batting average […]”

Made to Love Magic

pitchfork

6.7

“The backside of Nick Drake's headstone, wedged deep into the earth of Tanworth-in-Arden's parish church graveyard, reads: "Now we rise and we are everywhere." The words were penned by Drake in 1974; 30 years later, they seem jarringly prophetic. Like nearly all prematurely buried cult figures, Nick Drake is reinvented each time he is rediscovered. In 2000, the sheepish, astral musings of "Pink Mo”

“The three LPs Nick Drake had completed by the time of his 1974 death — each of them pretty, vaguely haunting and emo before there was such a thing — have gone from cult treasures to consistent sellers, which explains the demand for this twenty-eight-track collection of rarities, covers and alternate versions, many of them […]”

A Treasury

pitchfork

3.3

“Despite only recording three studio albums in his lifetime, Nick Drake has had three rounds of career exhumation, the latest of which closes with A Treasury, a single-disc, best-of compilation.”

Pink Moon

ben

8.8

“Love this one. Why does a dude w a guitar never ever get old”