Seeds We Sow

''Seeds We Sow'' is the sixth solo album by American musician and Fleetwood Mac vocalist-guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, released on September 6, 2011. It is his first to be self-released.

With the exception of She Smiled Sweetly, a Rolling Stones cover, every song on the album was either written or co-written by Buckingham. "I wrote them out as snippets of ideas right before I went in to start the actual recording. She Smiled Sweetly was the only thing I had recorded previously; it had been sitting around for a while, waiting to find a home. It seemed somehow appropriate to end the album with it."

The album entered the ''Billboard'' 200 in the week of September 24, 2011. By reaching number 45, ''Seeds We Sow'' ties with 1984's '' Go Insane'' as Buckingham's second most successful album after his 1981 debut ''Law and Order''. It also reached number 6 on the ''Billboard'' Rock Album Chart and number 5 on the ''Billboard'' Independent Albums Chart. The title track was also released as a single but failed to chart.

Track listing

All tracks written by Lindsey Buckingham except where stated.

#"Seeds We Sow" – 3:43
#"In Our Own Time" – 4:20
#"Illumination" – 2:19
#"That's the Way That Love Goes" – 3:56
#"Stars Are Crazy" (Lindsey Buckingham, Lisa Dewey) – 4:50
#"When She Comes Down" – 4:48
#"Rock Away Blind" – 3:57
#"One Take" – 3:28
#"Gone Too Far" – 3:24
#"End of Time" – 3:57
#"She Smiled Sweetly" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 2:53
#"End of Time" (acoustic) – Amazon MP3 download – 4:12
#"Seeds We Sow" (electric) – Amazon MP3 download – 3:57
#"Sleeping Around the Corner" – iTunes download – 3:33

Single releases

'Seeds We Sow' was offered as a free download ahead of the album release date, 'When She Comes Down' was released in the UK via digital download and 'In Our Own Time' and 'End of Time' were serviced to radio stations as promotional releases.

Format

The album was released physically on CD as an eleven-track album with an additional three tracks available as a digital download. The album was also released as a limited-edition 180-gram red vinyl gatefold 2×LP via Back On Black records.

Personnel

Musicians

* Lindsey Buckingham – vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, percussion, drums, programming
* Brett Tuggle – keyboards (4)
* Neale Heywood – bass (4)
* Walfredo Reyes, Jr. – drums (4)
* Kristen Buckingham – sequencing

Production

* Lindsey Buckingham – producer, recording, mixing
* Stephen Marcussen – mastering at Marcussen Mastering (Hollywood, California)
* Stewart Whitmore – digital editing
* Jeri Heiden – art direction
* Nick Steinhardt – design
* Jeremy Cowart – photography
* Tom Consolo – management (for Front Line)
* Irving Azoff – management (for Front Line)
* Buckingham Records LLC

Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received a score of 73 based on 13 reviews. Jason Heller wrote in The A.V. Club that "Buckingham elicits gooseflesh for the right reasons. "Illumination" is a sharp, accusatory screed that vibrates like a ''Tusk'' outtake, and "In Our Own Time" wrings sorcery out of Buckingham’s signature finger-picked arpeggios and haunted swathes of harmony." Rolling Stone was more critical, saying that "the recording suffers from thin, uneven sound and, on tracks like "Stars Are Crazy", a surfeit of muddling reverb".

Charts

References

Lindsey Buckingham albums
2011 albums
Albums produced by Lindsey Buckingham
Back on Black Records albums

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