Buck Meek – Haunted Mountain LP clear green vinyl

Haunted Mountain is about love and... something other. Something bigger than love, a soulfulness, or a soul seeking fullness. In the songs, five co-written alongside longtime friend and musical hero Jolie Holland and one set to the words of Judee Sill’s final journal entry, love often assumes a natural form, sometimes it becomes artificial, sometimes cosmic. It is a consciousness here, interacting with the lovers, watching them sometimes, becoming them sometimes. Yet romance is not the only form of love Haunted Mountain explores. The epic ‘Lullabies’ examines the inexhaustible connection between mother and son; a platonic bond appears in ‘Where you’re coming from’; and grief leads to communion with the dead in ‘Lagrimas’.

The songs were written in mountains; by cold springs in the Serra da Estrela of Portugal, on the submerged volcano of Milos in the Cyclades, Valle Onsernone in the Swiss Alps (where the cover photo was taken), and the Santa Monica range where Buck now calls home - all where his new love was born. “Love inhabits your environment, animates the inanimate, charging everything around you with a sense of meaning,” Meek says. Haunted Mountain asks, "is love a form of magic?"

Label: 4AD – 4AD0601LP

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album

Country: US

Released: Aug 25, 2023

Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country

Style: Folk Rock, Country Rock

Tracklist

A1 Mood Ring

A2 Haunted Mountain

A3 Paradise

A4 Cyclades

A5 Secret Side

B1 Didn’t Know You Then

B2 Undae Dunes

B3 Where You're Coming From

B4 Lullabies

B5 Lagrimas

B6 The Rainbow