The New York-based, Texas-bred singer/songwriter and Big Thief guitarist returns with a beautiful third solo album of sensitive, moving, melodious alt-country, Americana and folk rock. The overall flavour is bittersweet, a theme about reaching for and beyond love, and wonderfully vivid detail, but with a style that’s feels comfortable, compelling and yet arresting. Take Cyclades, for example, a rich-sounding country rock number with “too many stories to remember”, but tells them - instant conjuring up that of Meek’s father crashing a motorcycle into an elk (“no time to brake so he closed his eyes and prayed”), or with his mother on a windy Greek Cycladian road, survived a head-on collision with a truck, chords and melody changing mood beautifully. The same goes on the title track. “Now that I live here on this haunted mountain/I know I’m never coming down.” Like with band Big Thief with singer Adrianne Lenker, there’s beautiful subtlety and balance, guitar embellishments aiding the vocals helping bring out lyrics. Other standouts include Where You’re Coming From, and Paradise, but the whole album has a high mark of quality and quiet confidence, and is probably his best solo effort yet. Out on 4AD.
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