Lindsey is so Alt! (Beast Music)

[michelej1]

Lindsey Buckingham Is So Alt!
April - 18 - 2011By Chuck Salter, BEAST Music Correspondent
http://www.buffalobeast.com/?p=5835

I just discovered Lindsey Buckingham, perhaps the most alt musician to hit the blogs since Toro y Moi. I wanted to name drop him here, so he can start trending real hard on Twitter. I can’t believe no one knows who this guy is yet! Not even Pitchfork.com!

He’s polite, slightly insane and a fantastic singer and guitar player who is handsome and well dressed with an alleged minor coke problem.

I downloaded his leaked album, Tusk, last night, and want to be the first one to review it. He sounds a lot like Animal Collective, the White Stripes and The Clash. I can definitely tell this guy listened to these guys while writing the album!

Check out Lindsey Buckingham’s hipster recording techniques, where he duck tapes a mic to the bathroom floor and sings the vocals. I really like his American Apparel shirt. The video is even faded and worn, a total trademark of a hipster. He’s too cool to look like it’s 2011!

But anyway, Buckingham is OD crazy. Tusk is an animal, a complete ego-tripping **** fest with banjos, moaning and fuzz guitar. I think the word “Tusk” is symbolism for “penis.” Pretty sure his song “Tusk” is about ****ing. Check it out (Lindsey’s the one with the aviators on). He’s already so post-hipster that he doesn’t get caught being filmed with Ray Bans on. The song is already going viral, with over 90,000 hits already.

I could def. see him making Gorilla Vs. Bear, but not Rolling Stone. That would be framing his image as too mainstream. Maybe he’ll collaborate with Ryan Adams and drop an MP3 firebomb on the Internet.

So I bit Torrent downloaded Tusk, and I was blown away by it’s sound. Dry. Abrasive. Melodic. Crazy. I mean, this could easily sound like it came out in 1979. I really like the female back-up singer he has on there. She’s ok, but Lindsey is just so good!

I noticed the album was released through Warner Bros., which is really strange for a major label to be releasing such an Indie act. I mean, I’ll look over the fact that he’s not on a real indie label cause his songs are so artistic!!!!!!!!

Anyway, what are your first impressions of Lindsey Buckingham? Do you think he’ll come out with a #ChillWave album next? How alt would that be?!
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Chuck Salter writes for The DEBASER, a hyper local bitch-smacking machine about Connecticut politics. When he’s not unemployed, he works as a reporter or as a stock boy at your local Harry & David.

[holidayroad]

I went to read the full article at the post link. This article is very confusing. I can't tell whether the writer gets that Tusk was released in 1979 and is being off the wall or if he is under the impression that LB is new to the scene!

[Fiver]

Think he's making fun of how 'everything old is new again'. The old new wave is the new new wave.

[holidayroad]

Originally Posted by Fiver

Think he's making fun of how 'everything old is new again'. The old new wave is the new new wave.

Thanks for the insight!

[Fiver]

Oh, just my guess. This article made me think of something to do with Lindsey, though.

I have some friends that I tried to get interested in FM. They kind of scoffed at it, called it 'dadrock'. Anyway, I made them a mix of LB's stuff from UtS and GoS, and played it while they were over at my place. They both seemed to enjoy it, and asked to borrow some of his stuff, so I loaned UtS to one of em and GoS to the other. Not sure if they've figured out what band Lindsey Buckingham is a part of yet.