Peter Buck knocks out two new albums!

Peter Buck cut Beat Poetry For Survivalists with The Auteurs' Luke Haines and joins Scott McCaughey with Norwegian pals in The No Ones. 

THE GREAT LOST NO ONES ALBUM

The No Ones – a bi-continental collaboration featuring Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey, Frode Strømstad and Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen – is a band that stretches from the southwest of Norway through Athens, Georgia to the northwest corner of the USA, consisting of members from I Was A King, The Minus 5, The Baseball Project and R.E.M.

As this pedigree almost dictates, they wield Fender and Rickenbacker guitars, cutting, chiming and fuzzing their way through songs dealing with abduction, interstellar mysteries, witchcraft, and more mundane fare like climate change, gentrification, and the desolation of the soul. The vocal harmonies and psychedelic flourishes fuse the sunny turbulent sounds of the ‘60s with the darkness and decay of today.

 The 13-track LP, The Great Lost No Ones Album – out on Yep Roc March 27th – was recorded way back in June 2017 at Type Foundry by Adam Selzer in Portland, OR, and features Patterson Hood (“Straight Into The Bridge” and “Sweet Home Mississippi”), Darren Hanlon (“All You Need Is Rain,” “Too Blind To Believe, “Turn Again”), Andrew Reiger and Davey Wrathgabar (“Dream Something Else”), Lucy Parnell (“Sun Station Vadsø”), and Debbi Peterson (“Gone”).

Initial pressings come with a bonus 7" with the otherwise unavailable tracks "Apples" and "Slow Century." You can pre-order The Great Lost No Ones Album from Yep Roc right here. Watch the video for "Straight Into The Bridge" below and the lead track "No One Falls Alone".

BEAT POETRY FOR THE SURVIVALIST

Beat Poetry For The Survivalist is the new collaboration between Peter Buck and Luke Haines. Peter Buck was the guitarist R.E.M., the biggest band in the world. Luke Haines was the guitarist for The Auteurs who were not the biggest band in the world. Luke Haines also does paintings of Lou Reed.

One day, Peter Buck bought one of Luke Haines’ Lou Reed paintings (for £99.00) They had never met before but decided that the fates had brought them together and they should write some songs together and make an album.

Beat Poetry For The Survivalist (Omnivore) is that album. With songs about legendary rocket scientist and occultist Jack Parsons, the Enfield hauntings (of 1978), a post-apocalyptic radio station that only plays Donovan records, Bigfoot, and Pol Pot. You can order a copy of the album directly from Omnivore Recordings right here. Listen to "Jack Parsons" below.