LP – 140g Black Bio Vinyl with Printed Inner.British Writer, comedian and podcast host Adam Buxton releases his debut music album Buckle Up on Decca Records.The album sees Buxton collaborating with Metronomy’s Joe Mount (as lead producer) and The Vaccines’ Pete Robertson. When Decca approached Buxton to make his first solo album, five years ago, the label didn’t realise they were dealing with a “master of self-deluded overcomplication”.He told them he wanted “Berlin-period Bowie and Eno going for lunch with Radiohead and Nina Simone at Brian Wilson’s beach brasserie.” He told them he wanted a Bulgarian choir, too.Then he enlisted Metronomy’s Joe Mount as producer: “I hoped it would be a Metronomy record with my voice!” None of these plans materialised. Instead came Buckle Up, fifteen songs in which Buxton is inescapably, and beautifully, himself.“You inhabit the uncanny valley between funny and sincere,” advised Greenwood, “and I’m not sure anyone’s ever made that work.” Buxton has come to accept that the uneasy balance between funny and sincere might be what he does best.“That encapsulates everything I’ve ever done,” he admits.“Efforts to be thoughtful undermined by silliness, and vice versa”.
