![]() We're not really sure what it is we're being converted to, but that's not the point. We are, after all, quite comfortable with dismissing organised religion with the heartfelt passion and anger of Eternal Life, and then being converted in the next breath with the anthemic, addictive Hallelujah. But we need it to be there, even if we're sceptical of it. And we do find ourselves in these songs - a complicated, raw and spiritual version of ourselves that's too confronting to look at often. Our favourite records are the ones in which we find ourselves. It's a favourite, but it's best saved for late nights and a third whisky. It tells the stories of the parts of her life that are too painful to have open to scrutiny all the time. One friend told me she couldn't listen to the album too often because it was too precious. Buckley once described his music as "an invocation and worship of this certain feeling, this direct line into your heart, and somehow music does that more powerfully than anything else". ![]()
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