Today, Buck Meek presents his propulsive new single and video ‘Cyclades’, from his forthcoming album, Haunted Mountain, out on 25th August.

The songs of Haunted Mountain were written in mountains: by cold springs in the Serra de Estela of Portugal, on the submerged volcano of Milos in the Cyclades, Valle Onsernone in the Swiss Alps (where Haunted Mountain’s cover photo was taken), and the Santa Monica range where Meek now calls home – all where his new love was born.  “When you are in love, it inhabits your environment, animates the inanimate, charging everything around you with a sense of meaning,” Meek says.  “And not just new love; also love of many years.”

The love that colours ‘Cyclades’ is familial, depicting a true story of Meek’s father narrowly avoiding a motorcycle collision with a herd of elk.  “These are all true stories, or at least as I was told, or remember them being told,” explains Meek.  “There's a thin line between history and mythology.  Our lives are made of an endless myriad of unfinished stories, of every encounter of billions of people at the centre of thousands of years in each direction.  The telling is secondary.”

In conjunction, Meek announced a 2024 tour, kicking off with his first ever shows as a solo artist in Japan and Korea before heading back to North America with stops in Los Angeles, Austin, Dallas, Denver, and more.  Full dates are listed below with new dates in bold, and tickets will be on sale Friday at 5pm BST.  For more information head HERE.

August 2023
18th - Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons, UK
19th - Langs Akerselva, Oslo, Norway
21st - Stengade, Copenhagen, Denmark
22nd - Kantine am Berghain, Berlin, Germany
23rd - Noorderzon Festival, Groningen, The Netherlands
26th - Summerhall, Edinburgh, UK
27th - Stereo, Glasgow, UK
28th - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK
29th - YES, Manchester, UK
30th - Lafayette, London, UK

September
1st- Botanique, Brussels, Belgium
3rd - Into the Great Wide Open Festival, Vlieland, The Netherlands
5th - Paradiso | Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
6th - Le Hasard Ludique, Paris, France
12th - Magnolia Segrate, Milan, Italy *
13th - Spazio211, Turin, Italy *
14th - La Paranthese, Nyon, Switzerland* 
16th - Locomotiv Club, Bologna, Italy *

October
27th - Racket, New York NY, US

December
12th - CJ Azit, Seoul, South Korea
14th - Www, Tokyo, Japan
15th - Compass, Osaka, Japan

January 2024
17th - Casbah, San Diego CA, US
18th - Highland Park Ebell, Los Angeles CA, US
19th - The Chapel, San Francisco CA, US
20th - Little Saint, Healdsburg CA, US
22nd - Mississippi Studios, Portland OR, US
23rd - The Crocodile, Seattle WA, US
25th - Neurolux, Boise ID, US
26th - Urban Lounge, Salt Lake City UT, US
27th - Globe Hall, Denver CO, US
29th - Resonant Head, Oklahoma City OK, US
30th - Sons of Herman Hall, Dallas TX, US
31st - Sagebrush, Austin TX, US

February
2nd - Sister, Albuquerque NM, US
3rd - Yucca North, Flagstaff AZ, US
4th - Pappy + Harriet’s, Pioneertown CA, US

* solo

Following his beloved 2021 album, Two Saviors, Haunted Mountain marks Meek’s third solo album. Haunted Mountain is about love and… something other.  Something bigger than love, something that doesn’t challenge love exactly but stands in contrast to it.  A soulfulness, or a soul-seeking fullness. Meek says that loves songs are the hardest write.  “Not break-up songs, but an actual love song written in earnest?  That is taboo now,” he says.  “Sometimes it can feel like all the great love songs have already been written.”

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The songs on Haunted Mountain 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 Haunted Mountain’s cover photo was taken), and the Santa Monica range where Buck now calls home — all where his new love was born.  560 miles from Meek’s hometown of Wimberly, TX, the Franklin Mountains — or more reverently named, Sierras de los Mansos — rise over the tops of the endless acres of pecan trees that surround Sonic Ranch in the border town of Tornillo, where Haunted Mountain was recorded.  Produced by the band’s own Davidson, Haunted Mountain was recorded and mixed in two weeks by Adrian Olsen, who also performed the sound manipulation via modular synthesizer that can be heard throughout the album.