Buck Meek - The Mirror
Buck Meek Presents New Single, “Can I Mend It?” & Announces 2026 North American Tour
New Album, The Mirror, out This Friday via 4AD
“[The Mirror is] restless, layered, kinetic, with seductively destabilizing undertows and Meek’s distinctive electric guitar eruptions, clipped and gnarled, breaking through more serene atmospheres.” — Will Hermes, Old Music + New Music
“Slippery fusion of folksong and studio trickery… Meek may wander but he can’t help but drift back to idiosyncratic introspection which gives the album an entrancing sense of dream logic.” – MOJO, 4/5
“Such a great rolling, rollicking playfulness in this song that I love.” — Robin Hilton, NPR Music on “Gasoline”
“An album of sonic multitudes and existential depths… ‘The Mirror’ radiates a collaborative spirit of curiosity, seeking – and finding – wonder and mystery in the everyday.” — Record Collector, 4/5
Buck Meek releases “Can I Mend It?,” the third single and final preview from his new album, The Mirror, out this Friday via 4AD. In conjunction, he announces a North American Tour. Following an extensive EU and UK tour this Spring, Meek will return to North America for a run of dates on the East Coast in July and West Coast in December. See full dates HERE and contact us with any requests!
“Can I Mend It?” ponders connection amid conflict via warbling steel strings, chugging drums, and delicate keys. The Mirror steps through phases of love, from freshly formed to union, and the songs seek an infinite curiosity rather than resolution. Love, as an idea, is always close – but in its reflection comes an afterimage of the way things could be and how they’ve been before. The feedback loop takes hold in “Can I Mend it?,” as self-reflection is magnified in partnership: “Can I mend it? Can I make it whole? / Now that you’ve seen into the dark side of my soul.” The answers may come eventually, but the record treats love less as confession than as study – a map of not-knowing and a reverence for those shadows of intimacy.
“Can I Mend It?” follows singles “Ring of Fire,” a heartfelt promise glowing with warm guitars and Adrianne Lenker’s swooning background vocals, and “Gasoline,” in which Meek holds the absurdity of devotion, the choice to love, with equal parts ache and grin.