BUCK MEEK - The Mirror EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY Universe Room is the eighteenth

Universe Room is the eighteenth Guided By Voices album in ten years and packs a vast mix of energy levels and sounds into seventeen diverse tracks in less than forty minutes

The tinges of country and soul that give Camera Obscura’s baroque take on pop music its bittersweet edge have never been more apparent guitars shimmer into the distance

swap instruments and experiment

Recorded by the band at home in Lancaster with production work from Flaming Lips producer Dave Fridmann

A missing pen

BUCK MEEK - The Mirror EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY Universe Room is the eighteenthCD Buck Meek announces his new album, The Mirror, out 27 February, and shares its lead single, Gasoline. As Pitchfork praises, Meek specialises in a philosophical strain of songwriting, which is evident across The Mirror. Theres a tender power, countered by immutable vulnerability. With an uncanny curiosity, he reveals the uniqueness in the mundane. The Mirror searches for new meaning and the familiar is reframed through Meeks singular voice. On The