Adam Buxton joins forces with Metronomy’s Joe Mount on his debut album, Buckle Up

The track is is a hymn to his teenage son Nat, whom he’d often find standing in a bathrobe next to the oven watching a pizza cook at 11 in the morning. A coming-of-age song – and a getting old song – of wondrous economy.

On the announcement of his debut album, Buxton joked: “I don’t actually consider this actual music. One of the album titles I considered was ‘Adjacent To Music’, because every single bit of music that I’ve listened to, in my mind, is better qualified to be considered music than this.”

With the majority of the album produced and mixed by Metronomy’s Joe Mount, Buxton would go to Mount’s Kent studio every few months in 2023, and they’d build upon one of Buxton’s demos or reconstruct one of his songs from scratch. “I did my best to listen to Joe when he resisted my more unrealistically ambitious ideas. I have collaborated successfully so seldomly, I really tried hard to be led by him.” Mount would provide instrumentation, and occasionally Buxton would add incompetent instrumentation of his own.

Metronomy’s Joe Mount said: “I loved making this record with Adam and am very proud of my involvement in it. We chatted about artists like Ween, The Rutles, Eric Idle and Harry Nilsson whilst recording and I would often think to myself “what would a car full of teenagers enjoy hearing”. Hopefully we’ve made something a car full of teenagers will enjoy”.

Tracklist:

1. Intro
2. I Grated My Thumb
3. Doing It Wrong
4. Pizza Time
5. Dancing In The Middle
6. Standing Still
7. Spiders
8. Tea Towel
9. Shorts
10. Skip This Track
11. Falling To Part
12. My Feelings
13. Betjeman Notes
14. Have U Seen My Phone Charger?
15. Dimensions Of Superking