Lindsey Buckingham
Go Insane

THE REVIEW

"Go Insane" is the third solo album by Lindsey Buckingham, guitarist and deus ex machina of the (second) Fleetwood Mac, co-creator of those extraordinary albums like "Rumours", "Tusk", and "Tango In The Night".

A perfectionist and sound architect (very, very underrated), Buckingham creates here his first (almost?) masterpiece, the result of a sound as much structured as it is open and free to all sonic possibilities, ranging from the most exhilarating pop to the closing folk melodies. "Go Insane" is not an easy album, it must be said, but not due to alleged technicalities or compositional heaviness that become apparent on a first listening. It is more than anything else a sound journey within all the musical possibilities that have crossed this musical mind, which can be linked from now on to Mike Oldfield as well as Brian Wilson or why not, even to Prince.

An unpredictable album (as the increasingly complicated subsequent "Out of the Cradle" will be) that never slips into trivialities, today, at a distance from that 1984 when it was released, it is more modern than ever. It was immediately clear, listening to Fleetwood Mac albums, which pieces were written by Buckingham, compared to those by Stevie Nicks. In one above all, "Tusk", it could be heard every two songs, like a metronome, the sparkling and incisive progress of Buckingham's melodies. Here, after "Trouble", Buckingham finally finds the right (and deserved) creative spaces where he hypnotizes and fascinates us more than ever with his indefinable music.