Rolling Stone (2/17/00, p.58)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...[his] third and final album....accompanies himself only on acoustic guitar....His voice conveys, in its moans and breathy whispers, an alluring sensuality..."Spin (p.101)
- "[H]is Keatsian mark on music is indelible." Entertainment Weekly (5/12/00, p.24)
- "One voice, one guitar, one set of beautifully dolorous songs...the equivalent of an amble down a darkened country road. Modedl after-hours listening." - Rating: A Q (8/00, pp.112-3)
- 5 stars out of 5 - "...Nick Drake's best album....[Its] excellence shines through....Few records have ever sounded so intimate, or embodied Melancholy with such grace and assurance..." Alternative Press (3/01, p.88)
- "...With a voice paradoxically feather-light and grave, [one] of the most beautiful and melancholy albums ever recorded..." Mojo (Publisher)
(p.75)
- "[I]t's his most haunted, intense album, and its mere 28-minute duration feels perfectly judged." Mojo (Publisher)
(7/00, p.99)
- "...His masterpiece and the Robert Johnson comparisons are fully deserved..." NME (Magazine)
(8/12/00, p.28)
- Ranked #8 in The NME "Top 30 Heartbreak Albums" - "...Touched with luminous symbolism and uncanny intimacy, this is the sound of inescapable retreat." | 
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