Nick Drake’s Estate has authorized the July 25 release of The Making of Five Leaves Left, coming from Island/UME. The impending deliverable is rooted in 30+ demos, unheard studio outtakes, and ...

Spanning four LPs (or four CDs, if that’s your thing), The Making of Five Leaves Left contains 30 previously unheard tracks, including demos and studio outtakes. “I knew Nick was making this album (we ...

In her column “Made a Mixtape, Hope You Like It,” Amanda Altarejos ’26 curates a “mixtape” of modern music for older artists. Listen here for a playlist “for nick drake.” In most of his third and ...

Nick Drake’s Pink Moon is an endlessly renewable resource — an album you can always go back to and expect to feel the same melancholic comforts, as well as one that tends to spawn some excellent ...

What makes you think of fall? The smell of dry leaves, the sound of a crackling fire, maybe the taste of a pumpkin spice latte? - well, for me, nothing makes me think of fall more than this ...

Hooray! We’re going out of sequence with my master plan for No Skips, the weekly column where I judge an album per track to see if any are skippable. This week, we’re taking a glimpse at Nick Drake’s ...

A song about potential, Drake sings about what he could have been, rather than the unsteady person he views himself to be. I could have been a sailor, could have been a cook A real live lover could ...

Music tends to take on a new meaning after the artist who created it dies, and the death of English singer-songwriter Nick Drake on November 25, 1974, and the subsequent effects his passing had on his ...