Favourite Albums : 2nd

1.    Grace – Jeff Buckley

Definitely within my favourite two, with the obvious positioning of Radiohead’s ‘OK Computer’, ‘Grace’ has to be second. Again, I owe its discovery to my mother. I remember her state of disbelief and sadness upon hearing of Buckley’s death in 1997 (two years after the release of ‘Grace’).

It was, whilst learning to play ‘Mojo Pin’ on the guitar, I became entranced by the album’s sound of such a pure and now haunting voice. Enthralling. I did not buy the second, follow up album until I was in Vancouver in 2000. This was because I had found ‘Grace’ so special (it was his only album release, alive), that it deserved time alone.