Jeff Buckley only ever made and released one studio album due to his tragic death at the age of thirty in 1997, only three years after the release of his debut, “Grace.” This record is a well-crafted collection of harping guitars, tear-jerking lyrics, sweet love songs, and angelic vocals. “So Real” is the perfect example of Buckley’s knack for instrumentation and his eerily beautiful vocals, but he’s not so two-dimensional. Track nine, “Eternal Life,” has a total garage sound that diverts from his previous style. It interrupts the euphonious tracks before it—like “Corpus Christi Carol.” It’s an angry jab at corrupted people and how life is too short. His lyric “Man, It sounds to me just like a prison for the walking dead” really drives home the theme of entrapment in a loveless, unfulfilled life.
