Adam Buxton releasing debut music album, Buckle Up
- Buckle Up, Adam Buxton's first solo record of music will be released in the autumn
- Five years in the making, the collection of songs have been put together in collaboration with Metronomy's Joe Mount
- The record executive that signed Buxton reckoned "I was going to be able to just toss off an album in a couple of weeks, get it out for Christmas, job's a good 'un. But she reckoned without my desire to make Pet Sounds 2!" he said
Adam Buxton is releasing his first solo music album.
A collaboration with Metronomy's Joe Mount, Buckle Up will be released in September by Decca Records and has been described as tonally "in the uncanny valley of funny and sincere".
Buxton, who released two volumes of Song Wars comedy songs with his long-time double act partner Joe Cornish, taken from their BBC 6 Radio show, writes his own jingles for his podcast and other projects. But the new record has been five years in the making.
"I sent one of the songs to a musical friend, and, after quite a long period of silence, he responded with some good, constructive criticism" Buxton told comedian David O'Doherty and broadcaster Max Rushden on their What Did You Do Yesterday? podcast. "He said that you're in the uncanny valley between funny and sincere.
"That's the way I've been living my whole life! But I think the process of doing the album was kind of making peace with the uncanny between funny and sincere. So that's what a lot of the songs sound like."
Diehard David Bowie fan Buxton, who championed music videos in his live show BUG and its 2012 television adaptation for Sky Atlantic, explained that "I have somehow got this record contract.
"I've had it for about five years ... Someone who used to be at 6 Music, who then was a fan of my podcast, she became an executive at Decca and got in touch to say: 'Do you want to make a record? You know if could be just like some jingles, but a bit longer.
"She thought I was going to be able to just toss off an album in a couple of weeks, get it out for Christmas, job's a good 'un. But she reckoned without my desire to make Pet Sounds 2!
"And so I went through a long, long period of trying to figure out what kind of album I was going to make, and all the collabs I could do, all the favours I could pull in, and who I could get to produce it and all this massive overthinking.
"Finally I ended up working with Joe Mount ... He sort of became my producer/collaborator and he ended up reconstructing a lot of demos that I sent him and we spruced them up together. But it took ages and ages because he's a busy guy and he's always on tour. But every now and then we'd get together and and finally we finished a collection of very odd songs towards the end of last year."
In terms of the songs' meaning and the intensity of the project, Buxton distanced himself from professional musicians.
"It's honestly quite weird for me to be talking about them in terms of actual songs because I don't think of them that way" he told O'Doherty and Rushden. "I'm pleased, I like it but yeah, in my mind, it's not really the same as music I would listen to by actual musicians. And one title I was going to have for the record was Music Adjacent.
"But they said you don't need to put yourself down too much. Just call it something normal."
He also contrasted Buckle Up with James Acaster's debut music album, Party Gator Purgatory, released in 2023. Acaster's record was "quite dense, not a comedy album, like a proper experimental art music album and that's what I dreamed of making. That's not what I've made."
Buxton also spoke about recording the audiobook for his second memoir, I Love You, Byeee, its title taken from the sign-off from his podcast. Released next week in hardback, the book is the follow-up to his 2021 offering Ramble Book and is available for pre-order now.
Adam Buxton - I Love You, Byeee
The long-awaited new memoir and follow-up to the bestselling Ramble Book.
Hey, how you doing, casual browser? Adam Buxton here. Are you ready for some hot hyperbole about this book? Here we go ...
In I Love You, Byeee, the highly anticipated follow up to the bestselling Ramble Book, I reminisce with hilarious and heart-warming candour about the highs and lows of working with Joe Cornish and revolutionising the worlds of DIY TV and podcasting in the process.
You'll hear about my crazy times hanging out with notorious rock' n' roll hellraisers like Travis and Radiohead. I write with humour and heart-breaking poignancy about the challenges of parenting, losing my mother (to death, that is - we didn't get separated in a shop) and the drug hell that led to me nearly dying in the arms of a comedy legend. There's also a bit about arguing with my wife, getting instructions on edginess from Louis Theroux, going on Bake Off and much more that you didn't ask for but definitely need.
For all that, plus hours of bonus waffle and original music, why not download the audiobook, too?
Phew! I think we both need a shower after that. Take care - I love you, byeee!
First published: Thursday 22nd May 2025
- Publisher: Mudlark
- Pages: 320
- Catalogue: 9780008466985
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