Buckaroo: Blue Vinyl LP

Label: Mexican Summer
Release Date: 13th February 2026

Coming of age bedroom pop as told through the prism of the mythologised life of a modern day cowboy.

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‘Buckaroo’, the debut album from New York
songwriter Katzin, projects symbols of the
mythologized American West - cowboys, horses,
vast deserts, rolling plains, ancient rock formations
- onto the leap from adolescence to adulthood in
all its unsteady shine.

Katzin aka Zion Battle broke ground on the album
the Summer after he graduated from high school.
Together with collaborator and producer Max
Morgen, he drove to Joshua Tree for a week of
intensive recording. “By isolating ourselves, we
were able to capture this raw creative energy,”
says Battle. “It feels like we made a love letter to
our childhoods."

Surging with rolling drums, filigreed synthesizers
and guitars that flip from a whisper to a thunder roll
on a dime, ‘Buckaroo’ renders the beauty of North
America through a deceptively nonchalant
electroacoustic collage. “One of our main goals
was to make the album sound like the desert,”
says Battle.

Elegiac and smouldering with hope, ‘Buckaroo’
sticks with you: a perfect snapshot of a vivid time.
“It’s a recording of a moment in adolescence as
much as it’s a musical recording,” says Battle. “I
really think in 30 years I’ll look back on it and
maybe cry.”