Pink Moon more than anything else is the record that made Drake the cult figure he remains. Specifically, Pink Moon is the bleakest of them all.
Pink Moon has the power to absorb you completely, if you let yourself.
There is a stillness to Nick Drake's music that bewitches anyone who gets near enough, and Pink Moon is its purest expression.
His lyrics are so compressed as to be kind of folkloric haikus, almost childishly simple in their structure and elemental in their imagery.