Adam Buxton will release his debut music album ‘Buckle Up' via Decca Records on Friday 12th September 2025.
The album sees Buxton collaborating with Metronomy’s Joe Mount (as lead producer) and producer Pete Robertson (Beabadoobee, Jane’s Addiction, The Vaccines). You can pre-order the album on vinyl and pre-save it on streaming services. There will be an album launch event at London’s Rough Trade East on Wednesday 17th September.
The album's lead single ‘Pizza Time' is out now. The song, mixed by Joe Mount and produced and performed by Pete Robertson, is a hymn to his teenage son Nat, whom he’d often find standing in a bathrobe next to the oven watching a pizza cook at 11 in the morning. A coming-of-age song – and a getting old song – of wondrous economy.
The accompanying visualiser is made by Guy Larsen, who Buxton has most recently collaborated with on the ‘Up In Smoke' podcast.
On the announcement of his debut album, Buxton joked: “I don’t actually consider this actual music. One of the album titles I considered was ‘Adjacent To Music’, because every single bit of music that I’ve listened to, in my mind, is better qualified to be considered music than this.”
With the majority of the album produced and mixed by Metronomy’s Joe Mount, Buxton would go to Mount’s Kent studio every few months in 2023, and they’d build upon one of Buxton’s demos or reconstruct one of his songs from scratch. “I did my best to listen to Joe when he resisted my more unrealistically ambitious ideas. I have collaborated successfully so seldomly, I really tried hard to be led by him.” Mount would provide instrumentation, and occasionally Buxton would add incompetent instrumentation of his own.
Metronomy’s Joe Mount said: “I loved making this record with Adam and am very proud of my involvement in it. We chatted about artists like Ween, The Rutles, Eric Idle and Harry Nilsson whilst recording and I would often think to myself “what would a car full of teenagers enjoy hearing”. Hopefully we’ve made something a car full of teenagers will enjoy”.
The release of Buxton’s album is a modern-day illustration of Decca Records’ longstanding association with comedy, dating back to the label’s foundations in the 1930s.
