Nick Drake - Pink Moon

Pink Moon is the third and final studio album by English folk musician Nick Drake, originally released in February 1972 via Island Records.

Nick Drake's third and final album, many consider to be his finest moment, was a radical departure from his previous work, stripped of the lush orchestral arrangements, Pink Moon featured Drake alone on vocals, acoustic guitar and the occasional piano accompaniment.

This starkness was matched in brevity, with Pink Moon consisting of 11 short songs coming to less than half-an-hour of music.

The album was received with a lukewarm welcome by music critics at the time of its release, and commercial success did not arrive till nearly 30 years later, when 30 seconds of 'Pink Moon' was used in a Volkswagen commercial.

However its stature has grown in the intervening years and is now considered to be a landmark folk album, and continually ranks in music magazine polling as one of the greatest albums of all time.

This album is a 2022 repress on 180 gram black vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve, pressed in Europe via Island Records.