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Bon Iver's “Big Influence” Richard Buckner Announces New Album

• 18th Jul 2011

b>Richard Buckner has announced details of his first new album in five years.

Titled Our Blood, the twelve-track album is due to be released September 26th on Decor Records, and will be his first album to have a UK release.

The follow up to 2006's Meadow, it's been a turbulent five years for Buckner. Brushes with the law regarding a headless corpse in a burned-out car in upstate New York, the death of his tape machine and the loss of recordings, and the theft of his laptop and the loss of yet more recordings. Buckner reflects:

“Eventually, the recording machine was resuscitated and some of the material was recovered. Cracks were patched. Parts were redundantly re-invented. Insinuations were re-insinuated until the last percussive breaths of those final OCD utterances were expelled like the final heaves of bile, wept-out long after the climactic drama had faded to a somber, blurry moment of truth and voilà!, the record was done, or, let us be clear, abandoned like the charred shell of a car with a nice stereo.”

In a recent interview, Bon Iver's Justin Vernon hailed Buckner as a “big influence” on Bon Iver.

“His ( Richards) words are just about a sound and barely about meaning, but I could find all these crazy meanings in there. In his song “Loaded at the Wrong Door”, there are lyrics that are totally heartbreaking and beautiful and heavy, but you really couldn't say exactly what they're about. Still, I found these intense personal connections with those words because they flowed out a certain way.”

Richard is to tour the UK this November. More information can be found by following this link.

MSD