{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox album | name = Sefronia | type = Album | artist = Tim Buckley | cover = Sefronia.jpg | alt = | released = September 1973 | recorded = 1973 | venue = | studio = Paramount Recording Studios, Los Angeles; Record Plant, New York; Devonshire Sound Studios, North Hollywood | genre = *Soul *folk | length = 37:55 | label = DiscReet | producer = Denny Randell | prev_title = Greetings from L.A. | prev_year = 1972 | next_title = Look at the Fool | next_year = 1974 }} {{Album reviews |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/sefronia-mw0000199679|title=Sefronia - Tim Buckley &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits &#124; AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}</ref> |rev2 = ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' |rev2score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref name="CL">{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=2 |page=43}}</ref> |rev3 = ''MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide'' |rev3score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref name="MH">{{cite book |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1999 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |page=169}}</ref> |rev4 = ''The Rolling Stone Album Guide'' |rev4score = {{rating|1|5}}<ref name="RS">{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=94}}</ref> }} '''''Sefronia''''' is the eighth album by singer-songwriter Tim Buckley, released in September 1973.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tim-buckley-mn0000595101/biography|title=Tim Buckley &#124; Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Rough Guide to Rock |date=1999 |publisher=Rough Guides Ltd |page=135 |edition=2nd}}</ref>

==Production== The album was produced by Denny Randell.<ref name="TP">{{cite web |first=Wilson|last=Neate|title=Tim Buckley |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/tim-buckley/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=16 March 2021}}</ref> It was recorded at Paramount Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California. Other tracks were recorded at Record Plant, in New York, and at Devonshire Sound Studios in North Hollywood.

==Critical reception== AllMusic wrote that Buckley's "voice isn't as stunning as usual on his next-to-last album, but the bigger problem is the material, which is usually forced and pedestrian."<ref name="auto"/> ''Trouser Press'' wrote: "Denny Randell’s anachronistic-on-impact LA white-soul production, which pours syrupy strings over several numbers, is hardest to digest on poorly chosen middle-of-the-road love songs that didn’t suit Buckley at all."<ref name=TP/> ''NME'' declared that the album is "widely agreed to be Buckley’s most over-produced and underwhelming effort."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews-nme-5010-334337|title=Tim Buckley : The Dream Belongs To Me - Rare and Unreleased Recordings 1968/1973|work=NME|date=September 12, 2005}}</ref>

==Track listing==

Side One #"Dolphins" (Fred Neil) – 3:10 #"Honey Man" (Larry Beckett, Tim Buckley) – 4:10 #"Because of You" (Beckett, Buckley) – 4:25 #"Peanut Man" (Fred Freeman, Harry Nehls) – 2:52 #"Martha" (Tom Waits) – 3:10

Side Two #"Quicksand" (Buckley) – 3:22 #"I Know I'd Recognize Your Face" (Letty Jo Baron, Denny Randell) – 3:58 #"Stone in Love" (Buckley) – 3:27 #"Sefronia: After Asklepiades, After Kafka" (Beckett, Buckley) – 3:15 #"Sefronia: The King's Chain" (Beckett, Buckley) – 2:23 #"Sally, Go 'Round the Roses" (Lona Stevens, Zell Sanders) – 3:43

==Personnel== *Tim Buckley – guitar, vocals *Lee Underwood – guitar *Joe Falsia – guitar *Bob Rafkin – guitar *Marcia Waldorf, Sharon Beard, Myrna Matthews, Lisa Roberts – backing vocals *Bernie Mysior – bass guitar *Reinhold Press – bass guitar *Mark Tiernan – keyboards *Denny Randell – keyboards, producer, arrangements *Tom Scott – tenor saxophone *Fred Selden – flute *Earl Dumler – English horn *Larry Bunker – percussion *King Errisson – percussion, congas, tambourine *Ken Watson – percussion, timpani *Buddy Helm – drums *David Blumberg – string arrangements ;Technical *Greg Venable, Kerry McNabb, Larry Hirsch, Roger Dollarhide, Roy Cicala – engineers *Cal Schenkel – art direction *Ed Caraeff – cover photography

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