It’s getting hard to keep up with Peter Buck’s various music projects. The legendary R.E.M. guitarist has now teamed up again with veteran indie-rock singer/songwriter Joseph Arthur two record a second collaborative album under the Arthur Buck moniker. Arthur Buck 2 is a follow-up to the duo’s self-titled 2018 debut album. The new record, which features 10 tracks, was produced Jacknife Lee, who also worked on R.E.M.’s final two studio albums.
Buck and Arthur recorded the album with a backing group that featured Scott McCaughey on bass, Linda Pitmon on drums, and Gregg Foreman on keyboards and other instruments.
Buck has played with McCaughey and Pitmon in multiple projects, including Filthy Friends…
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As unlikely as it may seem, the pairing of Luke Haines and Peter Buck has proven to be a fertile one. Of course, we had enough distractions in 2020 to include the meeting of a stadium-honed US guitarist with a British outsider art-rocker on our bingo cards. Yet when Buck bought one of Haines’ paintings, the connection would lead to a debut album, Beat Poetry for Survivalists (2020), and its sprawling, experimental sequel, All the Kids Are Super Bummed Out (2022). Across both records, it emerged that Buck and Haines had found harmony in an encyclopaedic musical knowledge and a shared conviction that rock’n’roll is best pursued in prolific practice.
The sense of a band caught in motion energises this marvellous third entry in their self-billed…