Description
Buck Meek – Haunted Mountain – Vinyl Record
Buck Meek’s Haunted Mountain is a warm, wide-open alt-country record that feels like it was made in real time—human, unguarded, and quietly glowing. Recorded live to tape at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas and released by 4AD in 2023, it captures Meek (best known as Big Thief’s lead guitarist) leaning into his most song-forward, melodic solo work while keeping the slightly surreal, wandering spirit that makes his writing so distinctive. The album’s core is simple and inviting—clear chords, steady grooves, and a voice that sounds calm even when the lyrics turn uncertain—but around that core there’s a gentle, psychedelic shimmer: pedal steel and harmonies drift through like heat haze, subtle keys and synth color the corners, and the performances breathe with the looseness of a band playing together in a room rather than parts assembled on a screen. Lyrically, Haunted Mountain circles around love, devotion, disorientation, and the strange spiritual feeling of being pulled toward something you can’t quite name—songs that are tender without being sentimental, searching without being heavy. It’s an album that plays beautifully start to finish, balancing easygoing, sunlit charm with moments of deeper, weirder atmosphere, and it’s ideal for listeners who like their country-folk grounded in classic songwriting but touched by dreamlike edges.
Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory plastic
Track Listing
Mood Ring
Haunted Mountain
Paradise
Cyclades
Secret Side
Didn’t Know You Then
Undae Dunes
Where You’re Coming From
Lullabies
Lagrimas
The Rainbow
