Claude says:Nicholas Rodney Drake signed to Island at twenty while still at Cambridge, recorded three albums between 1969 and 1972, then withdrew from music entirely before his death at twenty-six. This compilation pulls from those records — delicate fingerpicked guitar, fragile voice, songs that sound like they're being sung from the other side of a window. You came across it in May 2024, played "One of These Things First" once, and haven't been back.