Lindsey Buckingham is one of the most immediately recognisable voices. His new album, an eponymous one has been highly praised. I've only just heard it, but I can immediately understand why.
Buckingham it seems, is not allowed to be in Fleetwood Mac anymore because Stevie Nicks won't allow him to be. Which makes Lindsey Buckingham a somehwat ironic listen. Because it's instantly recognisable as a better Fleetwood Mac album than Fleetwood Mac themselves could make these days.
All of the ingredients that mad Mac Mark II such an attractive proposition are present and correct and regardless of your music tastes it's difficult not to acknowledge, that Rumours and Tusk particularly were very, very good things. Buckingham still clearly has all of the songwriting gifts that he ever had so. These songs are speaking, fresh and instant.
In a year where members of older generations, Teenage Fanclub, Dinosaur Jr., ABBA and David Crosby among others, have returned with very good records, Lindsey Buckingham is up with the best of them. He must be hopping mad in some ways to be exiled from his spiritual home but thisin some ways if s thebest response. That shows them.
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