Lover, You Should Have Come Over moves me every time. Melissa Buckwell: Beautiful record! In my top 10 favourite records of all time. Skip to the end of the title track of Grace, and tell me it wouldn't have benefited from a little more care and control." ( The Guardian (opens in new tab)) "Blessed with a fabulously versatile voice - one that could turn itself to gentle ballads, opera, gospel and rock with equal competence - Buckley all too often wrenched the old seven-octave beast up to 11, delivering delicately-worded phrases with a big heap of X Factor-style melisma, rather than subtlety and measure. And that's a fair starting point for his music: Grace sounds like a Led Zeppelin album written by an ambitious folkie with a fondness for lounge jazz." ( AllMusic (opens in new tab)) " Grace is an audacious debut album, filled with sweeping choruses, bombastic arrangements, searching lyrics, and above all, the richly textured voice of Buckley himself, which resembled a cross between Robert Plant, Van Morrison, and his father Tim. The question isn’t whether or not Grace was superior to them – you can decide that one for yourself – but it sounded so fundamentally unlike those other albums that it might as well have come from another era." ( Consequence Of Sound (opens in new tab)) " Grace hit shelves in 1994, arguably alternative rock’s single greatest year its contemporaries included Soundgarden’s Superunknown, Beck’s Mellow Gold, Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral, Hole’s Live Through This, Green Day’s Dookie, and Weezer’s (first) self-titled album, to name just a few.
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