My Sweetheart The Drunk

The second and last (unfinished) album of Jeff Buckley, who disappeared on May 29th last year in the waters of the Memphis marina, will be released a little less than a year after his death. However precious and giddy this event will be for his admirers, it might darken the 'evidence' that's manifested from the very first listening of the 'tapes' : before being an intimate trace, the chronique of a lost love, Sketches for My sweetheart the drunk is above all a big record. Nothing less than the dazzling reflex of a radiant and sparkling talent, full of lust for life and happy to work on his new songs. Here resides big shocks like The Sky is a landfill and Yard of blonde girls : the man you hear singing (magnificently) is not sad, not fragile. It's a Buckley on fire but at the same time hard-working, concentrated on his thing. The preconceived idea about this double album is that of a simplicity and a dignity without weakness : these twenty songs, more or less brought to their final versions, more or less clothed - but it doesn't matter, since the nudity suits them fine - shows the slow and fascinating work of a musician preparing his big return into the light.
Jeff Buckley, this happy man (not cursed, nor depressed), had in mind to live for a long time : in his absence his records will do it for him instead.
Release date May 5th.

(note: as for the US, the release date is set to May 26th, other countries, well, I don't know...)

this translation was completed in a very short time, and I don't have the time really to look into all the faults, so I'd be happy if you could mail me if you find something "weird". Thanks!