Buckaroo
by Katzin

From MadhattanJack 02/14/2026 01:50 | #313131 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

It's unfortunate that in 2026, if your name is "Zion Battle" and you want to record your first album, you have to do it under a pseudonym, like "Katzin." Katzin also doesn't sound like what you'd expect just by looking at the album cover — he's a Black recording artist from New York doing straight-up indie folk-rock with a distinct Southwestern US vibe to it, without going so far as to warrant the "C&W" tag. Maybe you could say Beyoncé led the way on this with her "Cowboy Carter" LP, but this sounds a lot cooler than that, and frankly it's a more enjoyable listen. The instrumentation here is a hybrid of "modern rock" electronics and twangy Americana that you don't hear very often, and there are also a few momentary tripgazer passages spinkled in — I guess to get people like me interested, but it doesn't "disrupt the flow" so much. Nobody wants to disrupt the flow, after all.