Pink Moon
Nick’s third and final album was recorded at Sound Techniques again although, this time just with engineer John Wood present. Nick had apparently voiced dissatisfaction with Bryter Layter and had been talking for some time about recording a simple album with stripped down arrangements. Consisting of simply Nick’s guitar and vocal (apart from a single line piano overdub – played by Nick – on the title track), the sound is extremely intimate and stark.
Three of the songs on Pink Moon would sound like little more than works in progress on another album. ‘Know’, with its two string repeated guitar part and minimal vocal, is as simple as the album gets, yet even the least developed tracks on Pink Moon seem somehow complete. It is a short album (less than half an hour) yet totally self-contained and direct. The guitar playing, particularly on tracks such as ‘Road’, is as good as anything Nick recorded.
The artwork on the front cover comes from a painting by Michael Trevithick, although Keith Morris was originally commissioned to take photos for the cover.
The album’s last track ‘From the Morning’ is notable for containing the line ‘now we rise and we are everywhere’ which would later feature on Nick’s headstone.
TRACKS
Pink Moon lyrics
Nick Vocal, acoustic guitar, piano
Place to Be lyrics
Nick Vocal, acoustic guitar
Road lyrics (misspelled as ‘Radio’ on the original CD release)
Nick Vocal, acoustic guitar
Which Will lyrics
Nick Vocal, acoustic guitar
Horn
Nick Vocal, acoustic guitar
Things Behind the Sun lyrics
Nick Vocal, acoustic guitar
Know lyrics
Nick Vocal, acoustic guitar
Parasite lyrics
Nick Vocal, acoustic guitar
Ride lyrics
Nick Vocal, acoustic guitar
Harvest Breed lyrics
Nick Vocal, acoustic guitar
From the Morning lyrics
Nick Vocal, acoustic guitar