Luke Haines & Peter Buck
Going Down To The River… To Blow My Mind
Release Date: Jul 25, 2025
Genre(s): Pop/Rock
Record label: Cherry Red
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Album Review: Going Down To The River… To Blow My Mind by Luke Haines & Peter Buck
Excellent, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 4
Third album by former Auteurs frontman and R.E.M. guitarist matches acerbic lyrics with chiming guitars As unlikely pairings go, they don’t come much more unlikely than Luke Haines and Peter Buck. Haines is the now veteran maverick of the English indie music scene, with projects such as The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder and Baader-Meinhof, producing often brilliant material while always remaining steadily on the sidelines, from a commercial standpoint.
Opinion: Excellent
As unlikely as it may seem, the pairing of Luke Haines and Peter Buck has proven to be a fertile one. Of course, we had enough distractions in 2020 to include the meeting of a stadium-honed US guitarist with a British outsider art-rocker on our bingo cards. Yet when Buck bought one of Haines' paintings, the connection would lead to a debut album, Beat Poetry For Survivalists (2020), and its sprawling, experimental sequel, All The Kids Are Super Bummed Out (2022).
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