OnThe Mirror, the Buck Meeks fourth solo record and second album released by4AD, theres a tender power, countered by immutable vulnerability. Meek grew up in Wimberley, Texas. His first gig was at thirteen, playing rhythm for the Memphis bluesman Brandon Gist, kicking Gist’s old amp when it would short out on stage. Later, he moved to New York where he met Adrianne Lenker. The two lived in a van while singing their songs across the country before forming Big Thief.

Emerging from a decade of work together in Big Thief, the partnership of Meek and producer James Krivchenia on The Mirror arrived from the idea to combine the bands live, kinetic energy with an oblique electronic world. From production projects like Big Thiefs Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, and