Following his beloved 2021 album, Two Saviors, Haunted Mountain marks Big Thief guitarist Buck Meeks third solo album and first for his new label-home.

On Haunted Mountain, love often assumes a natural form crystal ball dew-drops, green rivers and grasses, tears bottled. Sometimes it becomes artificial mood rings, earrings, a pair of jeans, motorcycles and spacecraft. Sometimes cosmic I fell into a black hole with the hot flux of hazel (from ‘Paradise’).

Love is a consciousness here, interacting with the lovers, greeting them, watching them sometimes, becoming them sometimes. It extends beyond romance, examining the inexhaustible bond between mother and sun, and asks is love a form of magic? When you are in love, it inhabits your environment, animates the inanimate, charging everything around you with a sense of meaning, he says, and no