Buck Meek - Two Saviors

Released 15th January.

While his last album, 2018s Buck Meek, is a yarn of blue-collar fairy tales and character driven narratives, Two Saviors emerges as a cathartic, naked confession of heartbreak, resiliency, and enchantment. The first word on Two Saviors is pareidolia. It is a word about recognising shapes where none were intended to exist - like searching for images in the clouds. Its an uncommon word, with a beautiful sound, and serves as an apt guide through these new songs of Bucks, which are themselves uncommon and beautiful, and which invite a deep, cloud-gaze state of attention.

Two Saviors was recorded by producer and engineer Andrew Sarlo (who produced the first four Big Thief LPs), under his specific conditions: they make the album in New Orleans, during the hottest part of the year, spend no more than 7 days tracking, all live, on an 8-track tape machine with only dynamic microphones, and no headphones, not allowing the