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20 years of 'Grace'

THE TIMELESS INFLUENCE OF JEFF BUCKLEY'S MASTERPIECE

 Most albums naturally evoke their own era, from period-specific instrumentation and production techniques to an inescapable cultural vibe. But the normal rules never applied to Grace, Jeff Buckley's 1994 masterpiece and lone completed LP. Released on August 23 of that year, exactly 20 years ago today, and only four months after Kurt Cobain's suicide marked the end of the grunge era, Grace sounded like nothing else of its time. It journeyed from mystical hard rock (the rattling climax of "Mojo Pin") to brooding folk-pop ("Lover, You Should've Come Over") to trance-like psychedelia ("Dream Brother") to ethereal hymns ("Corpus Christi Carol"), held together by an explosive voice built of pure yearning. Twenty years on, Grace still sounds a movement unto itself.

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