Luke Haines & Peter Buck / Going Down to The River… To Blow My Mind
Third studio album from Haines and Buck

Luke Haines and Peter Buck are to issue a third collaborative studio album, in July.
Going Down To The River… To Blow My Mind follows 2020’s Beat Poetry For Survivalists and 2022’s All The Kids Are Super Bummed Out with the latest being called “the third in the psychiatric trilogy” of albums from the pair of musicians who are better known for their previous bands (The Auteurs & Black Box Recorder; and R.E.M., respectively).
Haines and Buck struck up a friendship and later a professional relationship after Peter bought one of Luke’s paintings online. The new album was recorded in Portland Oregon, in what is described as “USA foot-down-to-the-floor-throttle-out style”.
The 13-track long-player includes the songs ‘The Pink Floyd Research Group’, ‘Me and the Octopus’ and ‘Radical Bookshop’. It will be released on vinyl and CD on 25 July 2025, via Cherry Red. Luke Haines and Peter Buck will be on tour in the UK in August.
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Tracklisting

Going Down to the River… To Blow My Mind Luke Haines & Peter Buck /
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- The Pink Floyd Research Group
- Going Down to the River to Blow My Mind
- Hot Artists
- 56 Nervous Breakdowns
- Sufi Devotional
- Children of the Air
- Nuclear War
- Me and the Octopus
- In Rock
- Judy Chicago
- Papa John
- Radical Bookshop
- Special Guest Appearance
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By Paul Sinclair
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