This week, singer/songwriter Richard Buckner releases Our Blood (Merge), his first new music since 2006’s Meadow. The nine-track LP was recorded by Buckner at his upstate New York home studio with pedal-steel guitarist Buddy Cage (New Riders Of The Purple Sage) and drummer Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth). Buckner kicks off a co-headlining tour with labelmate David Kilgour (the Clean) on August 16 in Los Angeles. In the meantime, Buckner will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with him.
Buckner: Taxidermy has been coming and going out of my life for years. I had a pretty good collection going for a while, but I ended up losing it custody-style in a divorce. I got some more, but when I wasn’t really living anywhere for a while, I had it stored in a non-air conditioned storage space in Bakersfield, Calif. A buddy and I went to check in on it once, and some of it had gone bad: some pieces had been chewed on by other critters, still living, that also visited my space. One particular piece, a reptile of some sort, had changed color, was slick to the touch and something had been munching on one of the eyes. We threw it away, but soon after, both of us got a strange respiratory infection that lasted for a week.
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