Richard Buckner's got a new album coming out in August, and Lock and Key Music has the details. From the press release sent out by Merge Records:
Since 2006’s Meadow, fans of Richard Buckner have been clamoring for new material and
wondering what was keeping their hero from releasing the new songs he
would perform on the road. Well, it’s a long story!
First, there was the score to a film that never happened. Then there
was a brief brush with the law over a headless corpse in a burned-out
car that had all eyes in Buckner’s small hometown in upstate New
York turned toward him and his long-suffering truck. Shortly after a
move to a safer, less popular corpse dumping ground, the death of his
tape machine led to yet another reboot. After Richard called in pedal
steel and percussion players and put new mixes on his laptop, his new
“safer” place was burglarized. Goodbye, laptop.
Buckner says: “Eventually, the recording machine was resuscitated
and some of the material was recovered. Cracks were patched. Parts
were redundantly re-invented. Commas were moved. Insinuations were
re-insinuated until the last percussive breaths of those final OCD
utterances were expelled like the final heaves of bile, wept-out long
after the climactic drama had faded to a somber, blurry moment of
truth and voilà!, the record was done, or, let us be clear, abandoned
like the charred shell of a car with a nice stereo.”
And so finally, we present Our Blood, in stores August 2, 2011!
Download a free MP3 of “Traitor” now
<http://www.mergerecords.com/audio/buckner/OurBlood/traitor.mp3>
Pre-order Our Blood <http://bit.ly/lwd0Ni> on CD and LP now in the Merge store.
