Katzin - Buckaroo [Blue coloured vinyl]

Format: Coloured Vinyl LP
Catalogue No.:  MEX381-1 
Barcode: 0840460776271
Release Date: 13 Feb 2026
Genre: Experimental/Electronic

 ‘Buckaroo’, the debut album from New York songwriter Katzin, projects symbols of the
mythologized American West - cowboys, horses, vast deserts, rolling plains, ancient rock formations - onto the leap from adolescence to adulthood in all its unsteady shine.
 Katzin aka Zion Battle broke ground on the album the Summer after he graduated from high school. Together with collaborator and producer Max Morgen, he drove to Joshua Tree for a week of intensive recording. “By isolating ourselves, we were able to capture this raw creative energy,” says Battle. “It feels like we made a love letter to our childhoods."
 Surging with rolling drums, filigreed synthesizers and guitars that flip from a whisper to a thunder roll on a dime, ‘Buckaroo’ renders the beauty of North America through a deceptively nonchalant electroacoustic collage. “One of our main goals was to make the album sound like the desert,” says Battle.
 Elegiac and smouldering with hope, ‘Buckaroo’ sticks with you: a perfect snapshot of a vivid time. “It’s a recording of a moment in adolescence as much as it’s a musical recording,” says Battle. “I really think in 30 years I’ll look back on it and maybe cry.”
 LP pressed on Blue coloured vinyl.

Tracklisting
Tightrope
Anna
Wild Horses
Hope
Wake Up Ruben
Cottonmouth
Shortwave
All Hat, No Cattle
Cowboy
Buckaroo
Nantucket