Buck Meek Announces New Album ‘The Mirror’ Out 27 February

Buck Meek announces his new album, The Mirror, out 27 February, and shares its lead single and video, ‘Gasoline’. As Pitchfork praises, Meek “specialises in a philosophical strain of songwriting,” which is evident across The Mirror. There’s a tender power, countered by immutable vulnerability. With an uncanny curiosity, he reveals the uniqueness in the mundane. The Mirror searches for new meaning and the familiar is reframed 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’ve been before. Meek holds the absurdity of devotion, the choice to love – with equal parts ache and grin, as on today’s single, ‘Gasoline’. He sings, “Making words up while we made love / one month and she’s in my blood.” The song is accompanied by a frenetic and beautifully-shot video by director Noel Paul, and features musicians who play on the track, Ken Woodward, Adam Brisbin, and Jesse Quebbeman-Turley.
 
Check out ‘Gasoline’ HERE or via the player below.

Emerging from a decade of work together in Big Thief, the partnership of Meek and producer James Krivchenia on The Mirror arrived from the idea to combine the band’s live, kinetic energy with an oblique electronic world. From production projects including Big Thief’s Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You and his recent solo record, Performing Belief, Krivchenia’s work is enlivened through electronic elements, always seeking to deepen sound. The concept for The Mirror welcomed a collective atmosphere in which simultaneous experiment could occur – the musicians responded to each other in real time, while their instruments triggered modular synthesizers.

For The Mirror, Meek and Krivchenia welcomed in friends, family, and longtime collaborators including Adrianne Lenker, who contributed vocals, Adam Brisbin on guitar, and Ken Woodward on bass. New creative partners and longtime friends like composer and ambient musician Alex Somers joined in on synthesizer, toy microphone, an old piano, and Mary Lattimore brought in the sounds of her prismatic harp. A rotating cast of four drummers: Jesse Quebbeman-Turley, Jonathan Wilson, Kyle Crane, and Krivchenia provide a wide dynamic arc of grooves. Germaine Dunes, Staci Foster, Jolie Holland, and Lenker sing as a choir on many songs. Meek’s brother, Dylan Meek contributed piano, keys, and vocals. Adrian Olsen created a wide range of sounds and melodies with modular synths.

With his songwriting acting as a compass to the recording process, Meek invited interaction, instead of limiting the tracks to something controllable. The album was recorded in Meek and Dunes’ Los Angeles log cabin studio, Ringo Bingo. Meek recorded vocals outdoors on the front porch, looking through the living room window where the band played inside.

As an artist, Meek continues to reveal his singular aptitude as translator of human feeling and its endless portals. Through The Mirror, he aptly embraces the unknown with an abiding desire to find the right questions to ask, rather than their answers. “I don’t know the meaning of your dreams,” Meek writes on ‘Déjà vu’, “Though tell me everything.”

The Mirror will be available digitally, on standard LP (Crystal Clear) and CD from 27 February 2026. To pre-order, and for more information, head HERE.

Returning with his band for the first time since Summer 2023, having toured extensively across North America, East Asia and Australia, Meek brings his compelling live show to UK and European venues next Spring, including London’s EartH Theatre on 20 March. Full tour dates are listed below, and for tickets and information head HERE.

BUCK MEEK TOUR DATES
12 March – SOUTH PASADENA, CA, Sid The Cat Auditorium*
16 March – DUBLIN, IE, Whelan’s*
17 March – MANCHESTER, UK, YES | Pink Room*
18 March – GLASGOW, UK, Mono*
20 March – LONDON, UK, EartH Theatre*
21 March – LEEDS, UK, Brudenell Social Club*
22 March – BRISTOL, UK, Exchange*
24 March – PARIS, FR, Point Éphémère*
25 March – BRUSSELS, BE, AB Club*
26 March – AMSTERDAM, NL, Paradiso | Tolhuistuin*
27 March – NIJMEGEN, NL, Doornroosje*
28 March – SPRINGE, DE, Gut Bennigsen*
29 March – BERLIN, DE, Neue Zukunft*
31 March – COPENHAGEN, DK, Hotel Cecil*
1 April – HELSINIKI, FL, G Livelab Helsinki (Solo) &
2 April – TAMPERE, FL, G Livelab Tampere (Solo) &

*= w/ Kisser
& = Germaine Dunes

Praise for Haunted Mountain

“The songs are wonderfully non-toxic, obsessed in only the best possible way, a refreshing take on country love and lust.” — MOJO ****

“An expansive, full-sounding presentation, a resounding and confident tone that matches these optimistic and often unfiltered emotions.” — Uncut 8/10

“Relayed in impressionistic romantic imagery, it makes for an enveloping affair shot through with shards of gnarled desert rock.” — The Times ****

“Another brilliant release from one of the most boundary-pushing singular six stringers of the century so far… an eclectic and engrossing collection of sonic wonder.” — NARC *****

“A masterful achievement…Meek’s vocals have always been quality, but on this release he has truly reached another level.” — The Skinny’s Album of the Month *****

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