Buck Meek The Mirror CD

Buck Meek announces his new album, The Mirror, out 27 February, and shares its lead single, Gasoline. As Pitchfork praises, Meek specialises in a philosophical strain of songwriting, which is evident across The Mirror. Theres a tender power, countered by immutable vulnerability. With an uncanny curiosity, he reveals the uniqueness in the mundane. The Mirror searches for new meaning and the familiar is reframed through Meeks singular voice.

On The Mirror, love, as an idea, is always close but in its reflection comes an afterimage of the way things could be and how theyve been before. Meek holds the absurdity of devotion, the choice to love with equal parts ache and grin, as on todays (Jan 7th) single, Gasoline. He sings, Making words up while we made love / one month and shes in my blood.

Emerging from a decade of work together in Big Thief, the partnership of Meek and producer James Krivchenia on The Mirror arrived from the idea to combi