Review: Lindsey Buckingham Seeds We Sow ★★★/5 Rollingstone Mag

Lindsey Buckingham
Seeds We Sow
Mind Kit
★★★/5

Lindsey Buckingham's 2008 Gift of Screws, assembled with some of his Fleetwood Mac compadres, was a shockingly good set from a dude who hardly needed to prove anything. This self-released and -produced LP is a true solo affair. The best moments - the title track, the Rumours-echoing "Rock Away Blind" - show a sweet guitar picker, a haunting high-tenor and an unmistakable melodic touch. But the recording suffers from thin, uneven sound and, on tracks like "Stars Are Crazy," a surfeit of muddling reverb. Sometimes a man needs to go it alone, but sometimes it's good to bring your buds.

By WILL HERMES
Rollingstone Magazine

Review: Lindsey Buckingham Seeds We Sow ★★★ 1/2 out of 4 Chicago Tribune

In the increasing down time between Fleetwood Mac tours and albums, Lindsey Buckingham has become unusually prolific as a solo artist, doubling his career output in the last five years by producing three albums. The latest, “Seeds We Sow” (Eagle Rock Entertainment), is essentially a one-man-band affair, with Buckingham donning his mad-scientist lab coat to orchestrate mood swings on voice, guitar and percussion.

Unencumbered by the commercial and ego demands in Mac, Buckingham affirms his talent for turning eccentricity into twisted pop songs. He tackles big themes: how time reveals consequences; the grudging arrival of enlightenment. He favors undulating guitars, voices woven into choirs, a shimmering sense of space. Not that he’s gone soft. Instead, he’s restless, anxious, as exemplified by the protagonist in “Stars Are Crazy” who awakens in the middle of the night to torture himself with questions he can’t answer.

The turbulence lurking just beneath the surface crashes through on “One Take,” a nasty song about a despicable character (A politician? A rock star?  Buckingham himself?) who’s “got a publicist who covers up the avarice.” The jumpy beat gives way to a lovely vocal interlude, only to have Buckingham shatter the fine china with a crazed guitar solo.

Buckingham has a knack for disrupting beauty, intruding on the serene. A deceptively hushed vocal brings “Seeds We Sow” to a seething finish. Tense guitar-playing and furtive percussion overtake “In Our Own Time.” And even as mortality closes in on “End of Time,” the narrator still can’t let go of the lies and hostility that wrecked a relationship.

A cover of the Rolling Stones’ “She Smiled Sweetly” makes for a particularly apt closer. The guitarist is a huge fan of the Stones’ mid-‘60s pop era, a time of gloriously jaded singles and social commentaries. He plays “She Smiled Sweetly” as a sparse, haunted, 3 a.m. reckoning, exhaling the lines as if he were expiring. “Don’t worry,” the song’s femme fatale advises as the narrator stresses out, his fate sealed.


Greg Kot - Music critic
Chicago Tribune

AN EVENING WITH LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM - DUBLIN AND BELFAST CONCERT DATES CONFIRMED

Lindsey Buckingham has just confirmed two intimate Irish concert dates. An Evening With Lindsey Buckingham comes to the Olympia Theatre, Dublin on Thursday 15th December and The Waterfront, Belfast on Friday 16th December. Tickets for both concerts will go on sale this Friday 9th September at 9.00am.

Lindsey Buckingham has accomplished almost everything that can be done in rock 'n' roll, earning a spot in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame with Fleetwood Mac, winning countless awards, selling out venues around the world, and helping define the sound of rock for the last 3 decades. He's the predominant musical force behind such Mac albums as Rumours and the innovative Tusk, and has created a critically acclaimed body of solo work that yielded the hits, 'Trouble,' 'Go Insane,' and 'Holiday Road.

An Evening With Lindsey Buckingham

Olympia Theatre, Dublin - Thursday 15 December

The Waterfront, Belfast - Friday 16 December

Tickets On Sale Friday 9th September at 9.00am

A number of special VIP Packages will also be available for Dublin and Belfast and can be purchased via Ticketmaster. Details as follows:

MEET & GREET WITH SOUND 
* Exclusive Meet & Greet with Lindsey Buckingham before the show
* Attendance at the Sound Check
* Front row ticket to see Lindsey Buckingham live in concert
* Photo opportunity
* Signing opportunity
* Official tour programme
* Commemorative VIP laminate
* Event Manager in attendance

Lindsey Buckingham Meet & Greet with Sound Dublin €429.00

Lindsey Buckingham Meet & Greet with Sound Belfast £375.00

SOUND CHECK
* Exclusive opportunity to attend the Sound Check
* Ticket in the first three rows to see Lindsey Buckingham live in concert
* Official tour programme
* Commemorative VIP laminate
* Event Manager in attendance

Lindsey Buckingham Sound Check Dublin €259.00

Lindsey Buckingham Sound Check Belfast  £225.00

Artist | Date | Venue | Price | Tickets
Lindsey Buckingham Thu 15 Dec, 2011 Olympia Theatre, Dublin from €44.05
Lindsey Buckingham Fri 16 Dec, 2011 The Waterfront, Belfast from £35.00

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Review: Lindsey Buckingham "Seeds We Sow" ★★★ / 4 Stars USA Today

Lindsey Buckingham, Seeds We Sow
★★★ Stars out of 4

Buckingham has, happily, been recording at a steadier pace in recent years. Seeds is his third solo album since 2006 and, like its predecessors, is both intricate and supremely listenable. The Fleetwood Mac guitarist remains one of the most lyrical musicians around, fashioning arrangements that veer from gentle beauty to edgy effervescence. His melodies have a similar pungency.

— Elysa Gardner
USA Today

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