Release date: 29-04-2010

2010  exclusive limited Music On Vinyl edition 21-track 3-LP pressed on 180gram VIRGIN VINYL; features the Tom Verlaine produced tracks and demo versions of songs that were to have been the follow up to Buckley's stunning 'Grace' debut; housed in a card picture sleeve with lyric sheet and three printed inner sleeves, including a detailed biography of one of the most influential singer/songwriters of the last decades. sealed and stickered.

Tracks:
A1 The Sky Is A Landfill (5:05)
A2 Everybody Here Wants You (4:45)
A3 Opened Once (3:29)
A4 Nightmares By The Sea (3:51)

B1 Yard Of Blonde Girls (4:07)
B2 Witches' Rave (4:40)
B3 New Year's Prayer (4:42)

C1 Morning Theft (3:38)
C2 Vancouver (3:10)
C3 You & I (5:37)

D1 Nightmares By The Sea (3:51)
D2 New Year's Prayer (4:10)
D3 Haven't You Heard (4:06)
D4 I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby (If We Wanted To Be) (4:25)

E1 Murder Suicide Meteor Slave (5:52)
E2 Back In N.Y.C. (7:34)
E3 Gunshot Glitter (5:35)

F1 Demon John (5:11)
F2 Your Flesh Is So Nice (3:35)
F3 Jewel Box (3:32)
F4 Satisfied Mind (5:58)

Perhaps the most talented "son act" in pop music, Jeff Buckley combined the often harrowing eclecticism of estranged papa Tim Buckley with the rock acrobatics of Robert Plant. This posthumously released collection of four-track demos and sessions helmed by Tom Verlaine indicates that Buckley's astonishing full-length debut, Grace, was no fluke. The young singer-songwriter puts his falsetto to good use on an extraordinary collection of original material, from the soulful "Everybody Here Wants You" to the psychedelic "Murder Suicide Meteor Slave." And while his bluesy take on Porter Wagoner's "Satisfied Mind" may not be as revelatory as his earlier version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," this album offers ample proof that Buckley was among his generation's most gifted voices. --Bill Forman
Spin
Jeff Buckley’s death was so rife with rock-star symbolism--he drowned after playfully jumping into a Memphis marina only to get swept away by a Mississippi undertow--that it’s easy to forget that he never quite became one.
The two-disc Sketches collects Buckley’s work-in-progress--selections from the awkward Verlaine sessions plus the aforementioned demos--into a typically mercenary and reputation-tarnishing memorial. Tempering his bluster into sultrty quiet storm probably seemed like a smart move for this sad-eyed sex symbols. But "Everybody Here Wants You" is strictly sub-Spandau Ballet balladry. Sketches is more unneeded proof that, in rock & roll, dead men ultimately tell whatever tales they’ve committed to tape, no matter how inconsequential or unfinished. - Amazon.com