Description
As he’s proved over a record-making career that came into full bloom on 1997’s Devotion + Doubt, Buckner is a folk-style modernist with an intoxicating tenor and an abstractly heart-wrenching sense of poetics – think of his style as emotional psychedelia. This potent set reveals some of his writing technique, or seems to: nine spare songs about buried dreams. The self-produced album swirls drones and uncharacteristic electronics behind evanescent imagery. That it’s hard to grasp just makes it more seductive.