Nick Drake: Bryter Layter [ISLAND]

Why you'll love it

Bryter Layter is Nick Drake's lushest, most beautifully arranged album, and "Northern Sky" is one of the most beloved love songs in British folk.

This edition

• Bryter Layter on vinyl
• Island pressing

About the album

Produced by Joe Boyd, Bryter Layter dresses Nick Drake's intricate guitar and hushed voice in brass, strings, flute and jazzy rhythms, with Fairport Convention's Richard Thompson and Dave Pegg and the Velvet Underground's John Cale among the players.

"Northern Sky," with Cale on piano and celeste, is pure magic, "Hazey Jane II" bounces with brass, "At the Chime of a City Clock" glows, and the instrumental "Bryter Layter" and "Introduction" are graceful and lovely.

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Tracklist

On Island, a reissue of the 1971 album.