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Pink Moon

★★★★☆  album

Pink Moon

Drake recorded this austere album across two nights, voice and guitar alone, and released it to indifference before his premature death. The work has since achieved an unlikely immortality: twenty-eight minutes of autumnal splendor suffused with quiet devastation. Pink moon, indeed, comes for us all.

what it left me with

The world habitually defers its recognition of the gentle until they are gone. Do not await that posthumous verdict; name the quiet ones’ worth while they remain to hear it.

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