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Nick Drake
- Record Label: Island
- Release Date: Jul 25, 2025
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- Summary: The four-disc box set features demos, studio outtakes and previously unreleased songs from recording sessions for Nick Drake's 1969 debut album Five Leaves Left as well as a 60-page book and the original CD mastered by John Wood.
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- Record Label: Island
- Genre(s): Folk, Pop/Rock
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MojoJul 29, 2025This is a thoughtful, artfully curated release that furthers the artists' reputation. [Aug 2025, p.93]
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Aug 26, 2025For fans of Drake’s music, The Making of Five Leaves Left is absolutely essential and has no parallels in his discography. .... The Making of Five Leaves Left often sounds as if Drake is sitting on a stool five feet away.
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Jul 29, 2025The narrative of Five Leaves Left is long and complex. Now that it has been told, in words and music, the record’s greatness is surely only enhanced. This release is the culmination of a remarkable project for which we should all be grateful to Gabrielle Drake and the archival team.
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Jul 29, 2025An abundance of never previously heard material casts fresh light on these initial efforts, revealing ideas and arrangements in gestation as Drake experiments with tempo shifts and subtle melodic variations. .... This wonderful compendium is akin to eavesdropping on that magic being born. [Jul 2025, p.97]
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Jul 29, 2025These recordings are not just charming, but along with the other studio out-takes, portray a young artist who’s excited about an opportunity to realize his songs to their highest potential, and motivated to do some homework in preparation. Famously, Drake’s music was gloriously, beautifully sad, but The Making of Five Leaves Left helps show that the experience of creating it was a thing of great joy.
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Aug 11, 2025It sheds the excesses of Five Leaves Left and finds the gift buried beneath the brush: a singer, forever short on time, always at his best when taking the most direct route to a beautiful bedrock of very hard truth.