Meek, Buck: The Mirror (crystal) LP

Singer-songwriter, guitarist Buck Meek presents his new 4AD album, "The Mirror". With an uncanny curiosity he reveals the uniqueness in the mundane, the familiar is reframed through Meek's singular voice. As Pitchfork praises, Meek "specialises in a philosophical strain of songwriting", which is evident across the album's 11 tracks. There's a tender power, countered by immutable vulnerability. Emerging from a decade of work together in Big Thief, the partnership of Meek and producer James Krivchenia arrived from the idea to combine the band's live, kinetic energy with an oblique electronic world. The concept for "The Mirror" welcomed a collective atmosphere in which simultaneous experimentation could occur - the musicians responded to each other in real time, while their instruments triggered modular synthesizers.