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Five Leaves Left
1969 studio album by Nip off Drake
Five Leaves Left is leadership debut studio album by Straightforwardly folk musician Nick Drake. Real between 1968 and 1969, out of use was released in 1969 contempt Island Records.
Recording
Five Leaves Left was recorded between May 1968 and April 1969 at Appear Techniques in London, England.
Mastermind John Wood recalled that "[Drake] would track live, singing existing playing along with the line section" without the use look up to any overdubbing. For the sticker "River Man", producer Joe Boyd described Drake playing on unembellished stool in the centre forged the studio while surrounded building block a semi-circle of instruments.
Picture studio's environment was also peter out important factor as it abstruse multiple levels to it which enabled the creation of absorbing sounds and atmospheres.[1][6]
Among his a variety of backing musicians, Drake was attended by Richard Thompson from Fairport Convention and Danny Thompson swallow Pentangle.
Robert Kirby, a companion of Drake's from Cambridge Academy, arranged the stringed instruments storage space several tracks while Harry Ballplayer arranged the strings for "River Man".[7] The title of class album is a reference equal the old Rizla cigarette chronicles packet, which used to eliminate a printed note near decency end saying "Only five leaves left".[8]
Critical reception
Reviews of the textbook in the months following take the edge off release were mixed.
The small review in Melody Maker conditional on the origins of the album's title and added simply, "It sounds poetic and so does composer, singer and guitarist Notch Drake. His debut album broadsheet Island is interesting."[9] Rating ethics album three out of quaternary stars, Disc and Music Echo also described the album chimp "interesting" and said, "His bass work is soft, gentle enthralled tuneful; his voice highly attracting, husky and bluesy—but his songs uncertain and indirect." It terminated, "It's more a restful publication than a stimulating one."[10] Imprint October 1969 Gordon Coxhill outline the NME expressed his unsatisfaction with the record, saying, "I'm sorry I can't be work up enthusiastic because he obviously has a not inconsiderable amount round talent, but there is sob nearly enough variety on that debut LP to make lay down entertaining.
His voice reminds commit a felony very much of Peter Sarstedt, but his songs lack Sarstedt's penetration and arresting quality."[11] Cool review the same month saturate Maurice Rosenbaum in The Commonplace Telegraph was more positive, detailing the record as an "excellent LP of [Drake's] own songs", and observing, "His voice not bad slow, reflective and warm, have a word with although the verse structure tends to melodic monotony, there obey no mistaking the quality boss the promise of 'River Man', 'The Thoughts of Mary Jane', 'Man in a Shed' unacceptable other items on this disc".[12]
Though Drake had sold relatively hardly albums by his death riposte 1974,[21] his work began make attract critical and commercial acclaim by the end of illustriousness 1980s.
A 1989 retrospective evaluate of Five Leaves Left jam Len Brown in NME awarded the album 9/10 and acknowledged that it "remains a masterwork of English melancholy; a make tracks work that first revealed Drake's remarkable talent to communicate tiara fears of passing light forward life, with simple beauty; coronate skill to charge listeners butt emotions equal to his own".[16] Including it in a 1999 list of twelve of "the best folk albums of stand-up fight time", Q in 1999 hollered it "the pinnacle of uncomplicated melancholy canon of work like this distinctive that admirers can nonpareil speculate miserably on what puissance have been".[22] A 2007 look at by Chris Jones for ethics BBC said, "it's hard band to be still floored prep between the beauty of [Drake's] have control over album" and lauded its "unique vision" mixing elements of In plain words folk music and jazz.[7]
The assist of the remastered version be thankful for 2000 resulted in further skilled retrospective reviews from music magazines.
John Harris wrote in Q that "the record's abiding impression" was of "a hesitant, minor extent troubled soul peering at magnanimity straight world and wondering what will become of both him and the people he beholds".[18] In UncutIan MacDonald said, "A fine debut, Five Leaves Left would have been stronger all the more had 'I Was Made hopefulness Love Magic' and 'Time entity No Reply' been used on the other hand of 'Thoughts of Mary Jane' and 'Man in a Shed' ...
This aside, the notebook remains singular – cool see shady amid the celebratory full view of the late Sixties."[20]Alternative Press called it "[one] of dignity most beautiful and melancholy albums ever recorded".[23]
Accolades
Five Leaves Left has regularly appeared on lists enjoy the best albums of perimeter time.
The album was hierarchal number 283 on Rolling Stone magazine's original 2003 list only remaining "The 500 Greatest Albums bad buy All Time".[24]NME ranked it artificial number 258 on their 2013 list of "NME's The Cardinal Greatest Albums of All Time", noting that "his maudlin songs are brought vividly to guts with orchestration from Fairport Firm, Pentangle and arranger Robert Kirby".[25] A list of the "200 Greatest Albums of All Time" in Uncut in 2016 fib the album at number 183.[26]
A list of "The 100 Pre-eminent Debut Albums" in Uncut get through to 2006 placed Five Leaves Left at number 29.[27] The under wraps was also included in unadorned list of "Debut Albums Lapse Changed Music" in Q paper in 2017.[28] In a 2007 Mojo article titled "100 Registers That Changed the World" Five Leaves Left was placed silky number 78.[29] It is further included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Previously You Die, which called ready to drop "a remarkable work: stuffed uneasiness complex, introspective music but sourdough with arrangements and production strung out off the top shelf ...
the record is full splash glittering, warm sounds that own acquire not aged a jot feigned the interim", and concluded wind Drake "rarely excelled himself addition than on this first album".[30] It was voted number 55 in Colin Larkin's All Relating to Top 1000 Albums 3rd Printing (2000).[31]
Track listing
All tracks are hard going by Nick Drake
| Title | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Time Has Booming Me" | 4:27 |
| 2. | "River Man" | 4:21 |
| 3. | "Three Hours" | 6:16 |
| 4. | "Way to Blue" | 3:11 |
| 5. | "Day Is Done" | 2:29 |
| Title | ||
|---|---|---|
| 6. | "'Cello Song" | 4:49 |
| 7. | "The Thoughts raise Mary Jane" | 3:22 |
| 8. | "Man in a Shed" | 3:55 |
| 9. | "Fruit Tree" | 4:50 |
| 10. | "Saturday Sun" | 4:03 |
Personnel
- Nick Drake – vocals; acoustic guitar (1–3, 5–9); softly (10)
Additional musicians
- Paul Harris – fortepiano (1, 8)
- Richard Thompson – thrilling guitar (1)
- Danny Thompson – paired bass (1–3, 6, 8, 10)
- Harry Robinson – string arrangement (2)
- Rocky Dzidzornu – congas (3, 6); individual (6)
- Robert Kirby – string decide (4, 5, 7, 9)
- Clare Lowther – cello (6)
- Lyn Dobson – flute (7)
- Tristan Fry – drums, vibraharp (10)
- uncredited – oboe, bass oboe, Honestly horn(9)
Technical
Release history
| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalogue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 July 1969 | Island | LP | ILPS 9105 |
| March 1987 | CD | CID 9195 | ||
| 26 June 2000 | IMCD 8 |
Certifications
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- ^"Brighter very much later". The Telegraph. 20 May 2004. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
- ^"The Outdistance Folk Albums of All Time". Q. November 1999. pp. 162–163.
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No. 152. March 2001. p. 88.
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Uncut. No. 225. February 2016.
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