Buck Meek (who you may know from Big Thief, his joint releases with bandmate Adrianne Lenker, or perhaps just from his solo stuff already!)
On the cover of his new album The Mirror, Buck Meek is glancing back as if meeting his reflection in the lens, his shoulder obscuring his expression just enough: it’s not clear whether he’s startled, running away from something, or trying to break on through. Perhaps he’s heading to the “the tunnel underneath the road” that he finds on ‘Demon’, “a place I go to sing with echo, echo, echo” – a natural magic further filtered by the voices that tune into it throughout the record, a choir that includes Adrianne Lenker, Germaine Dunes, Staci Foster, and Jolie Holland, and bordering the electronic world fashioned by his Big Thief bandmate and producer James Krivchenia. But just like he sings of trying to write a song that is not for others on ‘Heart in the Mirror’, he’s aware of the dark side of his soul being exposed while learning to foster something good and even divine out of it rather than projecting it outward.
“The Mirror” is scheduled for release at the end of February. There’s a tender power, countered by immutable vulnerability. With an uncanny curiosity, Meek reveals the uniqueness in the mundane. “The Mirror” searches for new meaning and the familiar is reframed through Meek’s singular voice.
Just months after Big Thief had released one of our favourite albums of 2025 with “Double Infinity”, Big Thief guitarist Buck Meek announced his next solo album, The Mirror, due 2/27 via 4AD. It was made with his Big Thief bandmate James Krivchenia and Big Thief vocalist Adrianne Lenker contributes to it too, so it shouldn’t be a big surprise that you can hear a lot of Big Thief’s magic coming through on lead single “Gasoline.” It’s the kind of strummy folk rock that Buck Meek does so well, but it’s also got some of those art rock tendencies that came through on “Double Infinity“, making it just a little more far-out than what we usually get from Buck’s solo career.
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