Lindsey Buckingham

Lindsey Buckingham has always been a complicated man, and his first solo album in 14 years underscores that -- from the intricately picked folk arpeggios that rival Bert Jansch's in complexity and sophistication to the fractured confessional poetry that he's pulled from his tangled, over-analytical mind. Under the Skin shows a man at peace with his past, determined to discard old dreams in order to move on. Buckingham not only marches to the beat of a different drummer, he eschews drums altogether on this compelling autobiographical work.

Fleetwood Mac mastermind Lindsey Buckingham's fourth solo album came out on his
fifty-eighth birthday, and he gave himself a hell of a present. With its skewed pop melodies,
home-brewed sonic trickery and blazing fingerpicking, Under the Skin is a mesmerizing
return to the side of Buckingham that birthed the proto-indie-pop strangeness of 1979's
Tusk. Through most of the album, he achieves maximum effect from minimal arra... More >