Buck Meek has announced his new album, The Mirror, will be out February 27th via 4AD, and has just shared its lead single & video, “Gasoline.”
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 they’ve been before. Meek holds the absurdity of devotion, the choice to love—with equal parts ache and grin, as on today’s single, “Gasoline.” He sings, “Making words up while we made love / one month and she’s in my blood.” The song is accompanied by a frenetic & beautifully-shot video by director Noel Paul, and features musicians who play on the track, Ken Woodward, Adam Brisbin, and Jesse Quebbeman-Turley.
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 combine the band’s live, kinetic energy with an oblique electronic world. From production projects including Big Thief’s Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You and his recent solo record, Performing Belief, Krivchenia’s work is enlivened through electronic elements, always seeking to deepen sound. The concept for The Mirror welcomed a collective atmosphere in which simultaneous experiment could occurr—the musicians responded to each other in real time, while their instruments triggered modular synthesizers.
For The Mirror, Meek and Krivchenia welcomed in friends, family, and longtime collaborators including Adrianne Lenker, who contributed vocals, Adam Brisbin on guitar, and Ken Woodward on bass. New creative partners and longtime friends like composer and ambient musician Alex Somers joined in on synthesizer, toy microphone, an old piano, and Mary Lattimore brought in the sounds of her prismatic harp. A rotating cast of four drummers: Jesse Quebbeman-Turley, Jonathan Wilson, Kyle Crane, and Krivchenia provide a wide dynamic arc of grooves. Germaine Dunes, Staci Foster, Jolie Holland, and Lenker sing as a choir on many songs. Meek’s brother, Dylan Meek contributed piano, keys, and vocals. Adrian Olsen created a wide range of sounds and melodies with modular synths.
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The Mirror Tracklist
1. Gasoline
2. Pretty Flowers
3. Can I Mend It?
4. Ring of Fire
5. Demon
6. God Knows Why
7. Heart In The Mirror
8. Worms
9. Soul Feeling
10. Deja Vu
11. Outta Body
Buck Meek Live
Thu. March 12 – South Pasadena, CA @ Sid The Cat Auditorium*
Mon. March 16 – Dublin, IE @ Whelan’s*
Tue. March 17 – Manchester, UK @ YES | Pink Room*
Wed. March 18 – Glasgow, UK @ Mono*
Fri. March 20 – London, UK @ EartH*
Sat. March 21 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club*
Sun. March 22 – Bristol, UK @ Exchange*
Tue. March 24 – Paris, FR @ Point Éphémère*
Wed. March 25 – Brussels, BE @ AB Club*
Thu. March 26 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso | Tolhuistuin*
Fri. March 27 – Nijmegen, NL @ Doornroosje*
Sat. March 28 – Springe, DE @ Gut Bennigsen*
Sun. March 29 – Berlin, DE @ Neue Zukunft*
Tue. March 31 – Copenhagen, DK @ Hotel Cecil*
Wed. April 1 – Helsinki, FI @ G Livelab Helsinki (solo) $
Thu. April 2 – Tampere, FI @ G Livelab Tampere (solo) $
*= w/ Kisser
$ = Germaine Dunes
