Lindsey Buckingham - Gift Of Screws (2008)

1. Great Day
2. Time Precious Time
3. Did You Miss Me
4. Wait For You
5. Love Runs Deeper
6. Bel Air Rain
7. The Right Place To Fade
8. Gift Of Screws
9. Underground
10. Treason


Lindsey Buckingham, the talented former Fleetwood Mac guitarist, returns with an album full of the best guitar work you'll ever hear. I am completely serious about this. This album has the best guitar work I have ever heard, trumping Nick Drake, Thurston Moore/Lee Ranaldo, John McLaughlin, Robbie Basho and Vini Reilly.

With some kind of magical unicorn strings, Lindsey Buckingham has managed to hit the sweetest spot possible with his sound that lingers somewhere in between candy, ice-cream, a cold morning and kissing the one you love. It's clear like ice and a little detached, but somehow, still warm inside, like that bad boy who you know is really a sensitive, cuddly softie. It's a perfect sound, an absolutely perfect guitar sound that he uses to bring out his catchy, poppy melodies. The perfect equation for bliss, really. The swirls of guitar in Great Day are so intense and the production so immersive, it pulls you in right away. Songs like Wait For You, Did You Miss Me, Love Runs Deeper and the exceptional The Right Place to Fade bring to mind his former glories with Fleetwood Mac and turns them into new glories, not ghostly memories of a distant past. The best track, for me, is Bel-Air Rain where a beautiful, driving, finger-picking melody runs all around you and turns wherever you are, whatever the weather is, into a cold, pale grey, urban melancholy that feels prettier than diamonds.

His voice is also amazing. It sounds at once wise, youthful, passionate yet secure, so rich and full of depth. It sounds like the kind of voice that only comes with years of experience yet sounds more like the Lindsey Buckingham on the cover of Buckingham Nicks (link to the cover) rather than the old man on the cover of Gift Of Screws. It's a voice that carries weight, a voice full with the shades of things. The whole of Gift Of Screws seems like an album made out of the shades of things, the shades of history in his voice, the shades of color in the reverb, the shades of stories in the guitar, like a collage or a fuzzy pencil drawing of a blurry man standing on a hill far away. You can't tell the whole story but, somehow, it feels close to your heart.


Lindsey Buckingham - Gift Of Screws (Mediafire)
Lindsey Buckingham - Gift Of Screws (Sharebee)

Buy It Now!