The Endless Coloured Ways: The Songs of Nick Drake

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The theme of being left behind is one that really resonated with me, as someone who’s chosen to carve out a career in the arts. Twangy bass, handclaps and an unsettling, buzzing cello give the whole thing an urgency that re-invents and re-models. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our site, provide personalised content and advertising, analyse our traffic, and ensure you see more of what you love. The Gabriels’ many celebrity admirers include Elton John, this year’s headliner, who declared their single Love and Hate to be “probably one of the most seminal records I’ve heard in the last 10 years”, and brought out Lusk as one of his special guests. It’s a fair bet, indeed, that no beat-poetry-inspired, post-punk band from Dublin has ever yet covered the hushed “Cello Song.

The Endless Coloured Ways: The Songs of Nick Drake

And maybe that’s the real delight in The Endless Coloured Ways — it flags known aspects in new ways and sends you back to source; the borrowed lines from Winnie the Pooh in ‘Poor Boy’ one happy example. I hope you like it, but most if all, I am honoured to be part of a process that sees these wonderful songs take on new forms and put down roots in new places. Robert Kirby’s orchestration is astonishing but it unarguably augments the core quiddity of the songs. Writing for Hot Press, John Walshe scored this album 9 out of 10, summing up that it is "respectful without being overawed of its subject, this is a wonderful collection".

You think of Drake’s voice as hushed and delicate but Garvey proves that it has far more depth than that. This 23-track tribute to Nick Drake is exciting, revealing and inventive – whilst also underlining the shy Englishman’s timeless songcraft.

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The London duo are brave to bring broken robotic vocals to this highly impressionistic and neurotic Drake song about alienated London existence on the Northern line, but the result is too much on the dreary and monotonous side.Parasite by east London’s Stick in the Wheel drags a bit, while Emeli Sandé’s One Of These Things First seems to have removed the song’s essential marrow completely. out of 5 stars, with critic Fred Thomas writing that "it's wonderful to hear yet another generation of artists doing interesting things inspired by Drake's evergreen presence". Among the most unexpected delights of last year’s Glastonbury Festival was the storming British debut of Gabriels.

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These tracks were to be broken down, stripped for their parts, then reconstructed in whatever way we saw fit. Parish’s voice might resemble Drake’s in tone but, otherwise, this sounds more Krautrock than even the last War On Drugs record. A trumpet, very reminiscent of Pete Judge from Three Cane Whale, and xylophone remind you that Drake wasn’t always melancholic. C. to million-selling nineties chart-troubler David Gray via alt-rock heroine Liz Phair and the experimental folk of Skullcrusher. Sometimes, just sometimes, it’s better to keep things a little more traditional (okay, folky), as Scottish luminaries Karine Polwart and Kris Drever do on “Northern Sky”, or as Birmingham (UK)-based Katherine Priddy does on “I Think They’re Leaving Me Behind.Karine Polwart and Kris Drever take on ‘Northern Sky’, surely one of Drake’s greatest songs, and turn it into a simply stunning duet. Some people were there for the mysticism, others for the novelty — they’d lived nearby but never got up to see the longest day dawn. This takes the original and gently wraps it in the most exquisite material, taking the pre- Five Leaves Left demo and making it real.

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It’s a testament to the immense power and originality of his vision that so many gifted musicians of our generation are indebted to his influence. One of the most powerful moments is kept until the end: John Grant’s Day Is Done is simultaneously crushing and uplifting, a chilling, slowly unfolding electronic spell that emphasises Drake’s ear for the dramatic.C. and Liz Phair to Philip Selway, Let’s Eat Grandma, Self Esteem, John Grant, Aldous Harding, Guy Garvey, and Feist. Elemental but ineffable — three intimate albums beautifully complete but ripe for analysis and interpretation — what can he have meant? Katherine Priddy‘s ‘I Think That They’re Leaving Me Behind’, taken from the posthumous Family Tree album, is an absolute stand-out. and finally Black Eyed Dog by Self Esteem and Craig Armstrong – this is brilliantly atmospheric and clean sounding, which is great because Nicks original is really quite a muddy recording. Autumn Term features spectral acoustic guitar over a lolloping drum groove that’s reminiscent of A Moon Shaped Pool-era Radiohead.