Dents and Shells Richard Buckner SKU: MRG249LP Barcode: 0673855024905 21.00 £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Merge Records Released Date: 22nd November 2019 Buying Format: 1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Dents and Shells is the first LP that Richard Buckner made for Merge Records, in 2004. By the time the album was recorded in Austin, TX and Tucson, AZ, with the help of Butthole Surfers’ drummer King Coffey and other Austin locals, he’d been a touring musician and released over a half dozen records. With no fixed home base a decade deep into his career, he was still a roamer. That may be why Dents and Shells still sounds so fresh 15 years later. Whether working with collaborators or going it alone, on stage or in a studio, Buckner has always tended to play by feel. He documents what’s on his mind and of the moment on songs like Dents and Shells opener “A Chance Counsel,” as pedal steel guitar and piano provide a lovely soundscape for Buckner to wander through, weaving together words of assessment and encouragement as if thinking aloud. Dents and Shells features some of Buckner’s most beautifully plaintive songs, like “Her” and “Fuse.” Whether full-band arrangement or stripped down, the mood of both is much the same as the singer seems to be pining for something elusive. Listening to these songs today is like flipping through a poet’s notebook, encountering words and ideas, raw and immediate. As Buckner puts it in the song “Invitation,” sometimes the best way for a person to answer the question of another day is to dig through the scraps and “put the bones to use.” Dents and Shells captures an artist with many miles behind him, but no loss of wanderlust. Artist Richard Buckner Genre Rock And Pop Label Merge Records Buying Options 1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl , Includes Download Code Condition New Country UK Track Listings A Chance Counsel Firsts Invitation Straight Her Charmers Fuse Rafters Picture Day As the Waves Will Always Roll Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Richard Buckner and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Richard Buckner Impasse (Reissue) Rock And Pop | Merge | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 31st March 2017 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Richard Buckner Impasse (Reissue) £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Merge SKU: MRG357LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 31st March 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Richard Buckner Surrounded Americana / Country | Merge | 1LP Released 9th September 2013 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Richard Buckner Surrounded £19.00 Genre: Americana / 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