Buck Meek: Last News

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicThe indie band Big Thief has announced the cancelation of two concerts in Tel Aviv following a preemptive Instagram post meant to explain their decision to play in Israel. The shows were scheduled for July 6 and 7 at the Barby club.

Singer-songwriter and Big Thief guitarist Buck Meek has confirmed details of a new solo album. Haunted Mountain will be released on August 25 and today's announcement arrives alongside the album's title track.

Ethan Shanfeld Buck Meek, the Texas-born singer-songwriter and guitarist of Big Thief, has signed to 4AD and announced his third solo album, “Haunted Mountain,” slated for an Aug. 25 release. Meek teased the upcoming release with a music video for the lead single, also titled “Haunted Mountain,” which is co-written by Jolie Holland. The album, according to the announcement, is about love and “something bigger than love, something that doesn’t challenge love exactly but stands in contrast to it. A soulfulness, or a soul-seeking fullness.” In Meek’s own words, “Not break-up songs, but an actual love song written in earnest? That is taboo now. Sometimes it can feel like all the great love songs have already been written.”

Ethan Shanfeld “It’s a little bit magic,” Adrianne Lenker chirrs on the title track of Big Thief’s new album, “Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You.” Then, over a weeping pedal steel and her own signature “brush guitar,” her curiosity drifts from a river of morning geese to the birth of a billion planets to a dragon in the phone line. It’s never revealed what, exactly, “it” is, but throughout this adventurous new double-album, Big Thief dives into both the natural and otherworldly, paving new sounds and textures while uncovering new mysteries.Produced by drummer James Krivchenia, “Dragon” was recorded over four sessions with four different engineers in four distinct locations: upstate New York, Topanga Canyon, the Rocky Mountains and Tucson, Ariz.

Big Thief guitarist Buck Meek has given an update on the status of the band’s new album, revealing that it’s “pretty much done”.Speaking to Guitar.com in a new interview, Meek revealed that the band have been quietly working on their fifth album over the past year.“Lockdown was a well-needed respite, I needed a break,” he said.

Big Thief guitarist Buck Meek has shared a new single entitled ‘Roll Back Your Clocks’.The track was produced by Andrew Sarlo, known for his work with Bon Iver, Nick Hakim and Big Thief. Listen to it below:‘Roll Back Your Clocks’ is the first new music from Meek this year, following 2019 single ‘Halo Light’ and his 2018 eponymous full-length debut.