Buck Meek of Big Thief has announced his new album, The Mirror, out on 27 February via 4AD. Alongside the announcement comes the record’s lead single, ‘Gasoline’, as well as an accompanying music video shot by director Noel Paul. As Pitchfork notes, Meek “specialises in a philosophical strain of songwriting”, something that is evident across The Mirror. There is a tender power to the album, countered by an immutable vulnerability. With an uncanny curiosity, Meek reveals the uniquene...
Buck Meek of Big Thief has announced his new album, The Mirror, out on 27 February via 4AD. Alongside the announcement comes the record’s lead single, ‘Gasoline’, as well as an accompanying music video shot by director Noel Paul. As Pitchfork notes, Meek “specialises in a philosophical strain of songwriting”, something that is evident across The Mirror. There is a tender power to the album, countered by an immutable vulnerability. With an uncanny curiosity, Meek reveals the uniqueness of the mundane. The Mirror searches for new meaning, reframing the familiar through Meek’s 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 they have been before. Meek holds the absurdity of devotion and the choice to love with equal parts ache and grin, as heard on the lead single, ‘Gasoline’. He sings, “Making words up while we made love / one month and she’s in my blood.”
Watch the beautifully-shot music video above.
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