The band Buckner assembled for Dents and Shells fits his standard of choosing notable musicians, the most prominent being Butthole Surfers drummer King Coffey and Meat Puppets alum and former bassist for Bob Mould, Andrew DuPlantis. Much can be read into the lyrics of Invitation and Her - and even, depending on how lucid one allows himself to become, the imagery of the artwork depicting two birds, one hovering above a circle and the other a square, flying in opposite directions away from a tree - but what remains is another release that sounds how Richard Buckner has always sounded: grizzly, conceptual, fragmented, brooding, and plaintive.ĭents and Shells also represents a change in Buckners business, having moved over to Merge for this release, and back to a larger band (misery loves company), recalling the approach to his third album, Since. In some ways Dents and Shells treads similar ground in that it reflects some serious life change, but the impression Buckner leaves implies more a mutual understanding of why the two split rather than the paranoia that filled Devotion Doubt. The question on everyones lips seemed to be what the follow-up would sound like and if essentially it would be Devotion Doubt, Pt. When Impasse was released in late 2002, it was widely noted in the press that Buckner and his second wife, Penny Jo Buckner, were the only two musicians on the album and that, between the recording and the release of Impasse, the pair had split. What isnt often mentioned is Buckners ability to fill his music and lyrics with such a brutal and heavy heart that critics are quick to point to his lifestyle on the road, which implies a loner mentality, and his first divorce, which fueled his second album, Devotion Doubt.
The darkness that surrounds Richard Buckners writing always seems to be the focus of scrutiny for every judging ear, be it a professional critics or an armchair critics, and for good reason considering the elliptical, image-laden construction of Buckners banter, but the constant reference to this blanket has almost unjustly glorified the artist into an impossible mystery. Richard Buckner Dents And Shells Rar Professional Critics Or Mojo (Publisher) - p.114 3 stars out of 5 - With Buckner at large in a dusty, wide-screen landscape of brushed guitars, weeping pedal steel and decorous strings. Incorporating John McEntires brilliant, self-editing drums (Tortoise, the Spinanes Arches and Aisles ), David Grubbs multi-instrumental talents, and the Golden Palominos Syd Straw, Buckner and Co. Richard Buckner Dents And Shells Rar Professional Critics Or.
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