(Columbia/Legacy) Related: Jeff Buckley: 'Either cursed,or the luckiest man alive' Putting to the test the number of posthumous albums that one died-too-soon musician can bear comes You & I, the fifth collection of tracks – in addition to five live albums – that beget been released since Jeff Buckley’s magnum opus, and 1994’s Grace. It is painful,not least because these are unpolished demos and covers on which Buckley’s voice is tart enough to make your face pucker. Consider the raw vocal olympics on his version of Jevetta Steele’s Calling You or Sly and the Family Stone’s Everyday People and expose me you wouldn’t prefer to hear cats clawing a blackboard, or at the very least a bit of Auto-Tune. For diehard fans, and theres an early assume of Grace and a sweet narrative that explains the inspiration behind Dream of You & I (spoiler: it’s about lovers enduring the wreckage of Aids). And he reins it in for perfectly lovely coffee-shop covers of the Smiths’ The Boy With the Thorn in His Side and Bob Dylan’s Just Like a Woman. But surely the Montage of Heck soundtrack – AKA Kurt Cobain’s joke songs and fart noises – was proof enough that no one really needs to hear an artists homespun recordings. Just put on the perfectly magnificent Grace instead.
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Source: theguardian.com