Buckle Up – Vinyl

British Writer, comedian and podcast host Adam Buxton releases his debut music album Buckle Up on Decca Records. The album sees Buxton collaborating with Metronomys Joe Mount (as lead producer) and The Vaccines Pete Robertson.

When Decca approached Buxton to make his first solo album, five years ago, the label didnt realise they were dealing with a master of self-deluded overcomplication. He told them he wanted Berlin-period Bowie and Eno going for lunch with Radiohead and Nina Simone at Brian Wilsons beach brasserie. He told them he wanted a Bulgarian choir, too. Then he enlisted Metronomys Joe Mount as producer: I hoped it would be a Metronomy record with my voice! None of these plans materialised.

Instead came Buckle Up, fifteen songs in which Buxton is inescapably, and beautifully, himself. You inhabit the uncanny valley between funny and sincere, advised Greenwood, and Im not sure anyones ever made that work. Buxton has come to accept that the uneasy balance between funny and sincere might be what he does best. That encapsulates everything Ive ever done, he admits. Efforts to be thoughtful undermined by silliness, and vice versa.

SIDE 1
1. Intro
2. I Grated My Thumb
3. Doing It Wrong
4. Pizza Time
5. Dancing In The Middle
6. Standing Still
7. Spiders

SIDE 2
8. Tea Towel
9. Shorts
10. Skip This Track
11.Falling To Part
12. My Feelings
13. Betjeman Notes
14. Have U Seen My Phone Charger
15. Dimensions of Superking