2001 The
Dream Belongs to Me:
Rare and Unreleased Recordings 1968/1973 Strange
conflation of unrelated sessions
throws up real treasure, including two new
songs.
by
David Peschek More
from the Buckley vaults: six Happy Sad sessions tracks from the internet-only
Works In Progress spliced with eight unreleased demos from Sefronia,
presumably to make a saleable whole. Sefronia,
Buckley's penultimate album, suffered from an overcooked wannabe-pop production
-- Buckley himself, apparently, had a cold during the recording and his vocals
vary wildly in quality. The demos reveal what might have been.
The band skitter quietly but adroitly in the background, the voice is as supple
and free as it ever had been. Of the two new songs, The Dream Belongs To Me
is most focused, but also the strangest ("I had a love affair with a cross-eyed
flamingo"), while Sefronia itself is sensual and restrained. In
context, lackluster final album Look At The Fool now seems more like a
blip than the end of a downward spiral, which makes this the most important and
worthwhile Buckley archive release since Dreamletter. ©
2001 Peschek/MOJO | 
