We sat down with Buck Meek to talk about the comedy of human mythology, the pursuit of reciprocity and his latest record, Haunted Mountain.
sews them into kaleidoscopic incantations. His approach to narrative is very much akin to the work of poets like Frank O’Hara and Kenneth Koch, waxers who wrote of moments as they unfolded with embellishments that served the beauty of relatable plainness. Meek’s work, like O’Hara and Koch’s, is intimate; tapping into a song like “Paradise” or “Where You’re Coming From” is like stepping into someone else’s conversation mid-way through.
“The sacrifice that a mother gives must be so deeply empowering,” Meek says. “There’s a sense of purpose in that giving, and there’s also a deep sense of loss—and, somehow, those things are so intertwined. I think that you could say the same thing about any human relationship, because there’s always an inherent loss in our mortality. The closer you become to someone, the harder it is to let go—whether that means breakup or death, the evolution of someone’s life.
. It’s the richest part of the work altogether, beyond the sonic construction of the songs themselves. On “Undae Dunes,” he muses on UFOs and spaceships, singing “Years flew by with enigmatic beauty, but every night he’d think of Suzy. Red sky filled with rockets, Jim still flies with a silver locket.” On “Lagrimas,” he ushers in nods to sorcery and vintage, otherworldly safekeepings in order to find reconnections with a dead loved one.
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