Name: Haunted Mountain
Brand: Buck Meek

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

4AD-0601-LPE

Colour

Green

Colour details

Clear Green

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Indie Exclusive

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2023-08-25

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Beggars Group

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

191400060104

Total Cap

Green LP

4AD-0601-LP

Black

Extended format: No

191400060111

Black LP

4AD-0601-CD

Orchard

191400060128

Artist

Buck Meek

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Buck Meek is a folk musician best known as the guitarist and backing vocalist of Big Thief. Born and raised in Wimberly, Texas, Buck was introduced to the guitar during his youth. His teen years were spent playing blues, manouche jazz, and western swing in bars and dance halls across the state.

After moving to Brooklyn, he self-released two EPs as a solo artist: "Live from a Volcano" (2013) and "Heart Was Beat" (2015). In the meantime, he connected with Adrianne Lenker, who he performed with as a duo before forming the band Big Thief.

In May 2018, Buck released his debut album through Keeled Scales. Later that year, he relocated to Los Angeles where he wrote most of the material for his next record. His second solo LP, "Two Saviors," was released in January of 2020.

Newest Listed Items

For his latest solo album, Buck Meek, lead guitarist of Big Thief, went back to Texas with his band – Adam Brisbin (guitar), Austin Vaughn (drums), Ken Woodward (bass), Mat Davidson (pedal steel, vocals), and Dylan Meek (keys) - to record the eleven songs that make up Haunted Mountain over the course of two weeks at Sonic Ranch studio. Produced by Davidson and engineered and mixed by Adrian Olsen, the album follows Meek’s 2018 self-titled debut and 2021’s Two Saviors, with records as a part of Big Thief in-between - U.F.O.F. and Two Hands (2019), and Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (2022).

Haunted Mountain is about love and... something other. Something bigger than love, a soulfulness, or a soul seeking fullness. In the songs, five co-written alongside longtime friend and musical hero Jolie Holland and one set to the words of Judee Sill’s final journal entry, love often assumes a natural form, sometimes it becomes artificial, sometimes cosmic. It is a consciousness here, interacting with the lovers, watching them sometimes, becoming them sometimes. Yet romance is not the only form of love Haunted Mountain explores. The epic ‘Lullabies’ examines the inexhaustible connection between mother and son; a platonic bond appears in ‘Where you’re coming from’; and grief leads to communion with the dead in ‘Lagrimas’.

The songs were written in mountains; by cold springs in the Serra da Estrela of Portugal, on the submerged volcano of Milos in the Cyclades, Valle Onsernone in the Swiss Alps (where the cover photo was taken), and the Santa Monica range where Buck now calls home - all where his new love was born. “Love inhabits your environment, animates the inanimate, charging everything around you with a sense of meaning,” Meek says. Haunted Mountain asks, "is love a form of magic?"

Haunted Mountain

Music US

Discover Haunted Mountain by Buck Meek. Vinyl LP and CD formats available. A soulful exploration of love and something bigger, produced by 4AD.