Bryter Layter
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| Nick Drake's studio album | ||||
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Publication |
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| Label (s) | Island Records | |||
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Baroque folk , folk - jazz |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
41:43 |
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Nick Drake - vocals , guitar Other musicians: see below |
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Studio (s) |
Sound Techniques, London |
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Bryter Layter is the second studio album by British folk singer Nick Drake . It was released in 1970 on the Island Records label . In the UK it wasn't released until March 1971. The album title is a stylization of “brighter later” (“later cheerful”), a common phrase from weather reports from the BBC at the time .
Track list
All songs are written by Nick Drake .
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Studio musician
Nick Drake is accompanied by the following studio musicians :
- Dave Pegg - bass (1–3, 5–10)
- Ed Carter - Bass (4)
- Dave Mattacks - drums (1, 2, 5, 6, 10)
- Mike Kowalski - drums (3, 4, 8, 9)
- Richard Thompson - lead guitar (2)
- Ray Warleigh - alto saxophone (3, 8), flute (10)
- Paul Harris - piano (4)
- Chris McGregor - piano (8)
- Lyn Dobson - Flute (6)
- John Cale - viola , harpsichord (7), celesta , piano , organ (9)
- PP Arnold - backing vocals (8)
- Doris Troy - backing vocals (8)
- Robert Kirby - arrangements (1–3, 5, 10)
reception
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| Allmusic |
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The album Bryter Layter is, like all three albums by Nick Drake, a classic in music history and appears in many best lists of music magazines; for example in the selection of the 500 best albums of all time by Rolling Stone (German edition: 145th place; English: 245th place)
“After the grandiose but commercially unsuccessful debut ' Five Leaves Left ', Nick Drake relied on producer Joe Boyd and arranger Robert Kirby again. [...] The effort only paid off artistically: The consistently filigree song material lived from the congenial arrangements of Kirby and Drake's finely woven melodies. "
Bryter Layter also reached top positions in similar best lists of other music magazines , including 14th place of the 50 best albums of the 1970s (1993, New Musical Express ), 140th place of the 500 best albums of all time (2013, NME), 23rd place of the 100 best British albums Albums (2001, Q ) and place 50 of the 200 best albums ( Uncut ). Pitchfork Media selected the album as # 55 of the 100 best albums of the 1970s.
In addition, Bryter Layter , like all three Nick Drake albums, was included in the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die .
Cover versions
A few of the songs on the album were from other musicians gecovert , including At the Chime of a City Clock of The High Llamas , Northern Sky of Maximo Park and Fly by Kristin Hersh and The Soundtrack of Our Lives .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review by Ned Raggett on AllMusic.com (accessed October 9, 2016)
- ↑ Review by Jayson Greene on Pitchfork.com (accessed October 9, 2016)
- ↑ a b Rolling Stone, 11/2004, p. 25
- ↑ Top 100 Albums of the 1970s on pitchfork.com, accessed August 25, 2017
- ↑ 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
- ↑ Nick Drake covers on whosampled.com (accessed July 1, 2018)