Album Review: Beat Poetry for Survivalists by Luke Haines

You know that friend you call when your car is making a funny noise who knows how to suss it out? Or the nice guy you know who has a van and never minds helping you move? Well, for a certain sort of musician, Peter Buck is a similar sort of friend who can be relied upon to pitch in when you want to make a record. Buck has always been an eager collaborator, and since R.E.M. folded, he's devoted more time to making music with other people -- among them Robyn Hitchcock, Alejandro Escovedo, Joseph Arthur, and numerous ad hoc groups featuring Scott McCaughey -- than he has to his solo career, which he's treated as a hobby more than a profession.

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