Nick Drake's woody pop gem, "Five Leaves Left"

Nick Drake has often been dubbed the "Van Gogh of music." A somewhat hasty posthumous shortcut for this nonetheless prodigious English guitarist, composer, and performer, who died in near indifference in 1974 at the premature age of 26.

Author of three unique albums that went relatively unnoticed upon their release, the trilogy that constitutes Five Leaves Left (1969), Bryter Layter (1970) and Pink Moon (1972) is now in the pantheon of woody pop. Nick Drake's aura after his death has continued to grow, becoming the archetypal figure of the romantic and tormented "folkeur", bearer of an autumnal spleen. A cult maintained by various admirers such as Kate Bush, The Cure, Paul Weller, Mark Lanegan, Françoise Hardy, Elliott Smith... The aesthete filmmaker Wes Anderson even immortalized one of his most beautiful songs, Fly , in The Royal Tenenbaums (2002) .

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