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Lindsey Buckingham - Gift Of Screws
| Ew |
| As a member of Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham is a rock potentate. As a solo artist, he's an avant-garde aesthete, breaking down beguiling melodies into sonic mushroom clouds. Gift of Screws finds him creating an insular world of ghostly vocals and nervous guitars. On ''Time Precious Time,'' a frenetically picked acoustic guitar ticks off the moments before an emotional reckoning, while the jittery title track throws a cherry bomb at Bush's war machine. Buckingham remains the master of type A chamber pop....full text |
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| Musicomh |
| Lindsey Buckingham is that increasingly rare beast in the pop world; an ageing rocker who still counts. For a man who has made indescribably large amounts of money with Fleetwood Mac, and who is the author of some of the finest soft rock songs of all time, it is refreshing to find him nearing his sixties and still releasing solo albums that stand up against his late '70s peak....full text |
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| Billboard |
| Lindsey Buckingham once sang about "Never Going Back Again," but he's backtracked—sort of—on his fifth solo album. "Gift of Screws" picks up where the rock auteur left off in the early days of this decade, before he was lured back into the Fleetwood Mac fold for 2003's "Say You Will." Mac minions will find this electric-flavored, band-sounding album pleasing, but there's also the avant ambience that's Buckingham's stock in trade. So while something like "The Right Place to Fade" knocks off Fleetwood Mac's "Second Hand News" and the title cut (one of three recorded with the Mick Fleetwood-John McVie rhythm section) is charging garage rock, "Great Day" sports the stark and primitive sonics of "Tusk" and Buckingham's early solo albums....full text |
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