Gift of Screws

Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham's fifth solo release album, Gift of Screws, still has those foundational screws of the past great band still intact. If you're a Fleetwood fan, then this will surely get your heart racing and blood pumping with excitement. Gift of Screws has those similar sweet sounding melodic chants that make us nostalgic of Fleetwood Mac. However, Buckingham manages to create brand new tracks with a whole new outlook with traces of his past still embedded. In its uplifting tone, the album flourishes as it takes us back and forward at the same time.

The unmistakable sound from Fleetwood ? mainly the guitar and rhythm ? serves as a great template for his transfer to a solo career. Sure Buckingham has done four before Gift of Screws, but the Fleetwood fans flock with him like a gaggle of geese heading south. The fire and tenacity are laced into this bundle of songs as it hones in and focuses to have a uniting quality to them. The guitar solos that rock out are amazing as Buckingham sings the beat as well. The result of mixing the contributory Fleetwood sound with some experimental sounds allows this album to take flight.

Gift of Screws is heavily acoustically focused and adds so much flair to this already talented and accomplished musician. Buckingham doesn't stretch far away from home here as, according to him, he clings to his idealism and sticks to his guns. Not a huge risk taker on this venture as he does what he knows, but he does it with flying colors.