Gift of Screws - LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM (Billboard Review)

 

Billboard Magazine

 

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. —Gary

 

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