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Buck Meek announces his new album The Mirror, set for release on February 27 via 4AD. Alongside the announcement comes the lead single, “Gasoline.” Meek will perform at Tolhuistuin Amsterdam on March 26 and at Doornroosje Nijmegen on March 27.
His long‑running collaboration within Big Thief forms the foundation of his work with producer James Krivchenia, who once again helps shape a sound that blends the band’s live energy with an electronic landscape. Krivchenia’s explorations with electronic textures — heard in Big Thief’s Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You and Meek’s recent solo record Performing Belief — continue to deepen the sonic world around Meek’s songwriting.
For The Mirror, Meek and Krivchenia invited close friends, family, and long‑time collaborators, including Adrianne Lenker on vocals, Adam Brisbin on guitar, and Ken Woodward on bass. New creative partners and old friends joined as well: composer and ambient artist Alex Somers on synthesizer, and Mary Lattimore adding harp. A rotating cast of four drummers — Jesse Quebbeman‑Turley, Jonathan Wilson, Kyle Crane, and Krivchenia — brings wide dynamic range. Germaine Dunes, Staci Foster, Jolie Holland, and Lenker appear as a vocal ensemble across multiple tracks. Meek’s brother Dylan contributes piano, keys, and vocals, while Adrian Olsen expands the album’s palette with modular synths.
Love — as idea, memory, and possibility — sits close throughout the record. In its reflections, Meek traces what was, what could have been, and what remains. With both wistfulness and lightness, he embraces the absurdity of devotion and the conscious choice to love. Guided by curiosity, he reveals the extraordinary in the everyday, reframes the familiar, and searches for new meaning through his unmistakable voice.
The album was recorded at Ringo Bingo, the cabin studio Meek and Dunes built in Los Angeles. Meek tracked his vocals outside on the porch, looking through the window at the band playing inside.
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