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Richard Buckner - Surrounded

Review by Matt Langham

The product of distraction from someone lazily drawn from writing to mixing desk.»

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In the time since Our Blood was released and after a few long tours, Richard Buckner attempted to work on writing short stories but found himself drawn back into the music room. The evidence of his time in the writer's chair is clear in the dense, lovely prose of Surrounded. Throwing out the "tricks and trades" of his previous efforts, Buckner hunkered down at home and chose a few unfamiliar pieces of gear--a Suzuki QChord electronic autoharp and an Electro-Harmonix POG2 pedal--to create basic tracks and open up more sonic possibilities. "The best outcomes happen sometimes when I'm unfamiliar with the tool that I'm using (imagine MacGyver wearing a dog cone)."
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