Pink Moon - 2022 European Island Label 11-track LP Reissue

2022 reissue of English folk singer/songwriters third and final studio album originally released in early 1972 - the only one of Drake's studio albums to be recorded without a backing band, featuring just Drake on vocals, acoustic guitar and a brief piano riff overdubbed onto the title track.

Pink Moon, like Drake's previous studio albums, did not sell well during his lifetime, and its stripped-back, intimate sound received a mixed response from critics. However, the album has since garnered significant critical acclaim.

Rolling Stone's Anthony DeCurtis wrote in his 2018 review that ... by the time of these sessions, Drake had retreated so deeply into his own internal world that it is difficult to say what the songs are 'about'. His lyrics are so compressed as to be kind of folkloric haikus, almost childishly simple in their structure and elemental in their imagery. His voice conveys, in its moans and breathy whispers, an alluring sensuality, but he sings as if he were viewing his life from a great, unbridgeable distance. That element of detachment is chilling. To reinforce it, messages of isolation gradually float to the surface of the songs' spare, eloquent melodies.

The album is pressed onto 180 gram black vinyl - presented in a gatefold picture cover featuring the original 1972 artwork.

Tracklisting:

Side 1.
1. Pink Moon   
2. Place To Be   
3. Road   
4. Which Will   
5. Horn   
6. Things Behind The Sun   

Side 2.
1. Know   
2. Parasite   
3. Free Ride   
4. Harvest Breed   
5. From The Morning