{"id":3976,"date":"2025-07-25T10:51:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/nick-drake-ten-revelations-from-the-new-five-leaves-left-boxset-150530\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T10:51:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:51:23","slug":"nick-drake-ten-revelations-from-the-new-five-leaves-left-boxset-150530","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/nick-drake-ten-revelations-from-the-new-five-leaves-left-boxset-150530\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Drake: 10 revelations from the new Five Leaves Left boxset"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today (July 25) sees the release of the highly anticipated new Nick Drake boxset, The Making Of Five Leaves Left<\/em>, which tells the story of how his stunning debut album came together across four discs of demos, studio outtakes and previously unheard songs. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Today (July 25) sees the release of the highly anticipated new Nick Drake boxset, The Making Of Five Leaves Left<\/em>, which tells the story of how his stunning debut album came together across four discs of demos, studio outtakes and previously unheard songs. <\/p>\n

Here is Uncut\u2019s<\/strong> guide to the most revealing tracks from the new boxset, which shine new light on one of the most mythologised albums of all-time:<\/p>\n

\u201cTIME HAS TOLD ME\u201d<\/strong>
(1st SOUND TECHNIQUES, MARCH 1968)
Drake\u2019s second ever studio recording fully unpacks the rich voice, complex guitar progressions and mysterious lyrics that will forever characterise him.<\/p>\n

\u201cSTRANGE FACE\u201d<\/strong>
(ROUGH MIX WITH GUIDE VOCAL, SEPTEMBER 11, 1968)
A studio experiment whose overdubs build into an artificial-sounding,
proto-motorik groove, with Drake\u2019s voice and guitar unperturbed at its heart.<\/p>\n

INSTRUMENTAL<\/strong>
(CAMBRIDGE, LENT TERM 1968)
Only 1:40 long, this unknown guitar fragment taped in Robert Kirby\u2019s room sounds packed with possibilities, forsehadowing Bryter Layter<\/em>\u2019s penchant for instrumentals.<\/p>\n

\u201cMICKEY\u2019S TUNE\u201d<\/strong>
(CAMBRIDGE, LENT TERM 1968)
The set\u2019s new Drake song, supposedly named after his friend Micky Astor, is breezy and bossa nova-like. \u201cWhen I played it at an event last year,\u201d says Drake biographer Richard Morton Jack, \u201cit hadn\u2019t been heard publicly by anyone before \u2013 including Micky Astor, who was in the audience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMADE TO LOVE MAGIC\u201d
<\/strong>(CAMBRIDGE, LENT TERM 1968)
Dropped from Five Leaves Left<\/em>, this lightly sung declaration of faith in the childlike and supernal now sounds like a major song. \u201cCelestial,\u201d Drake insists.<\/p>\n

\u201cSTRANGE FACE\u201d
<\/strong>(TAKE 1, NOVEMBER 12, 1968)
Danny Thompson\u2019s bass gives Drake\u2019s quicksilver, chiming guitar supple rhythmic backing.<\/p>\n

\u201cMAYFAIR\u201d
<\/strong>(TAKE 5, JANUARY 4, 1969)
The outro features Drake and Thompson\u2019s most telepathic improvisation, belying the former\u2019s rep for repetition.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019CELLO SONG\u201d
<\/strong>(TAKE 4, JANUARY 4, 1969)
\u201cStrange Face\u201d reconfigured and retitled: Drake\u2019s wordless humming and guitar arpeggios meet Clare Lowther\u2019s titular instrument.<\/p>\n

\u201cRIVER MAN\u201d
<\/strong>(TAKE 1, JANUARY 4, 1969)
Five Leaves Left<\/em>\u2019s greatest song arrives in solo acoustic form, with Drake\u2019s guitar already suggesting its orchestral possibilities.<\/p>\n

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