dontlookdown
09-28-2006, 06:59 PM
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,1882775,00.html
Lindsey Buckingham, Under the Skin
(Reprise)
Mat Snow
Friday September 29, 2006
The Guardian
Lindsey Buckingham, Fleetwood Mac's dominant songwriter for 32 years, is a pop genius: his sunny harmonies pull you one way while an undercurrent of anguish tugs you the other. His extra-curricular work has always been intriguing, and this fourth solo album is a small masterpiece of tightly balanced musical contrasts. Buckingham's filigreed melodies echo such heroes of his youth as the Byrds and Donovan; in a voice more echo-drenched and multi-tracked than any since John Lennon's, he tremulously exhales such lines as "My children look away, they don't know what to say," only to burst into the yearning rapture of "It's not too late." As spacious as Buckingham's native California yet as fraught with unease, this is another gripping postcard from the edge of paradise.
Lindsey Buckingham, Under the Skin
(Reprise)
Mat Snow
Friday September 29, 2006
The Guardian
Lindsey Buckingham, Fleetwood Mac's dominant songwriter for 32 years, is a pop genius: his sunny harmonies pull you one way while an undercurrent of anguish tugs you the other. His extra-curricular work has always been intriguing, and this fourth solo album is a small masterpiece of tightly balanced musical contrasts. Buckingham's filigreed melodies echo such heroes of his youth as the Byrds and Donovan; in a voice more echo-drenched and multi-tracked than any since John Lennon's, he tremulously exhales such lines as "My children look away, they don't know what to say," only to burst into the yearning rapture of "It's not too late." As spacious as Buckingham's native California yet as fraught with unease, this is another gripping postcard from the edge of paradise.