Beat Poetry For Survivalists
LUKE HAINES AND PETER BUCK

LP £22.00 Exc VAT: £18.33
  • SKU: BRED795
  • UPC: 5013929179516
  • Release Date: 06 March 2020

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Label Review. 

2020 album. Also available on CD

Our Overview. 

‘Beat Poetry For Survivalists’ is the new collaboration between Peter Buck & Luke Haines. Peter Buck was the guitarist for R.E.M. Luke Haines was the guitarist for 1990s UK indie band the Auteurs. The press release says: “[R.E.M. were] ...the biggest band in the world. The Auteurs were not the biggest band in the world. They were pretty good though.”

Luke Haines also does paintings of Lou Reed. One day, Peter Buck bought one of Luke Haines’ Lou Reed paintings.They had never met before but decided that the fates had brought them together and they should write some songs together and make an album. ‘Beat Poetry For Survivalists’ is that album. With songs about legendary rocket scientist and occultist Jack Parsons, The Enfield Hauntings (of 1978), a post-apocalyptic radio station that only plays Donovan records, Bigfoot, and Pol Pot.

Buck’s last main project was his collaboration with Joesph Arthur as Arthurbuck in 2018. Peter says that the pair have a follow-up also lined up for release this year. Luke Haines meanwhile, although less well known than his new musical partner has a long discography starting with his 1990s outfit The Auteurs. Despite being critically lauded, they failed to garner more than a cult following in their native UK. He scored his only ‘hit’ in with the song “The Facts of Life” by his next group Black Box Recorder in 2000. Since 2001 Haines has released albums under his own name as well as publishing a few books and has a regular column in Record Collector magazine.

Tracklisting: Jack Parsons / Apocalypse Beach / Last Of The Legendary Bigfoot Hunters / Beat Poetry For The Survivalist / Witch Tariff / Andy Warhol Was Not Kind / French Man Glam Gang / Ugly Dude Blues / Bobby’s Wild Years / Rock ‘N’ Roll Ambulance

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