• Record Label: Merge
  • Release Date: Sep 12, 2006
Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Buckner’s interest here is in a wallowing mouthful of atmosphere—dominant drums, throbbing guitar, and a fair amount of piano. This has always been the case, but the compositions are seamlessly edited and cleanly brought from instrument to recording.
  2. [It] has more powerful and propulsive arrangements than is often the case with the artist.
  3. Meadow is a new high-water mark.
  4. Meadow features Buckner's most focused work in years.
  5. Uncut
    80
    It's a maddening inversion of all the conventions of songwriting, but a brilliant one nonetheless. [Dec 2006, p.102]
  6. Increasingly abstract or not, Richard Buckner’s a great songwriter.
  7. Meadow picks up where his 2004 Merge bow Dents and Shells left off.
  8. Spin
    70
    Buckner's singular pipes and surrealistic lyrics tug the songs toward the esoteric, but the band pulls them back. [Oct 2006, p.95]
User Score
7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 5 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. marnold
    Dec 12, 2006
    9
    best since Bloomed.
  2. DPLSounds
    Oct 4, 2006
    8
    Still utterly unque, Buckner has successfully made the transistion from alt-country pioneer to indie-rock experimenter. Thought Doug Still utterly unque, Buckner has successfully made the transistion from alt-country pioneer to indie-rock experimenter. Thought Doug GIllard's familiar guitar often overshadows the somber poetry of Bukner's lyrics and delivery, the two seem to work very well together. The Bruse-Hornsbyesque piano lines on a few songs make sections of the album feel a little poppy, but Buckner's density and husk is still present all over this thing. Full Review »