PRESS

INTERVIEWS & FEATURES

  • The Wire Magazine, feature. Issue #445 (UK)

  • The Wire Magazine, feature. Issue #403 (UK)

  • Esalen Institute’s Proust Questionnaire (US)

  • Aquarium Drunkard, interview & feature (US)

  • Freunde von Freunden, feature (DE)

  • Echo Park Craft Fair, interview (US)

  • Wingspan, feature (JP)

  • Casa Brutus, feature (JP)

  • Wilder Magazine, interview & feature (US)

PODCASTS

  • Another interview on the Mountain Whispers podcast about the power of pilgrimage

  • An in depth podcast interview on the Voices of Esalen podcast about my work in the wild.

  • Long-form interview for Aquarium Drunkards podcast Transmissions

  • Thoughtful and strong review of Unlit Trail in WIRE issue #445. “…conjuring chillingly seductive atmospheres that most black metal bands could only wish for… simultaneously majestic and terrifying.”

  • An interview about “cultivating intimacy with the more-than-human-world” on the Mountain Whispers podcast

  • Long-form interview for Aquarium Drunkards podcast Transmissions

  • Exchanging Minds Podcast – an in-depth interview covering my discography, artistic practice in wilderness, animism and more.

  • Interview on Expanding Mind with Erik Davis

  • Talking about the mystical genius of Prince on Does Your Favorite Song Suck

SELECT PRESS FOR RECORDS

“Unlit Trail” by Fletcher Tucker

“Seven tracks that move between breathless drones, dreary neo-folk prayers and adorations of the woodland and its seen and unseen dwellers... conjuring chillingly seductive atmospheres that most black metal bands could only wish for… simultaneously majestic and terrifying.” – THE WIRE

“[Fletcher Tucker’s] latest album of ritualistic sound is called Unlit Trail. Like the previous, Cold Spring, it’s a record that settles deep into the sacred nature of existence. It’s an lp designed to welcome the listener ‘into a liminal state, beyond ordinary awareness,’ and into the unknown.” – Aquarium Drunkard

“…while you could maybe picture Fletcher Tucker smearing on some kind of face paint in ritualistic fashion, it certainly wouldn't be reminiscent of 90s Norwegian corpse makeup. What Unlit Trail does share with those often associated with “darkness” is the emotional response to its surroundings and the contrasting nature of its ominous atmosphere that creates a place for those interested to partake in the ritual. One who's ritual lives in a nighttime forest, surrounded by nocturnal creatures and those patiently waiting for the morning sun.” – EXCHANGING MINDS

"Cold Spring" by Fletcher Tucker

"Don't have time to spend 7 years in Big Sur [California] staring into the void? Listen to 'Cold Spring'! Fletcher Tucker's deep immersion masterpiece... a powerful and haunting transmission of fire and earth." – Devendra Banhart

"In 'Cold Spring', Tucker sinks into the redwoods and roots out something ancient and always. [A] truly incredible record." – Lars Gotrich, NPR

"Calling it an album about nature feels limiting. It is, more so, a reflection of an artist's total immersion in the idea of 'place,' its spectral songs often swallowed up in the shadows of giant redwoods, the coos of owls, and the howls of far-off coyotes... While so often mystical and contemplative music focuses on ecstatic sounds, centering on buoyancy and uplift, 'Cold Spring' is unreservedly dark at times. Like nature itself, the record can feel spooky, inspiring an awe that comes close to dread...over and over again, the completed record bears [Fletcher Tucker] out, sounding thoroughly haunted, an arboraceous, psychedelic journey that reveals more with each listen." – Jason Woodbury, Aquarium Drunkard

"I was instantly transported. Whatever mojo [Fletcher Tucker] was working there amongst the redwoods really has made it to the wax. It is a haunted, and haunting record with the spirit of place." – Erik Davis, Expanding Mind podcast

“Tucker evokes Big Sur’s natural grandeur with echo-shrouded vocals, shimmering synthesizers, wildlife field recordings, booming drums… [yet] one suspects that he spent as much time paring back as he spent building up. Each note and line occupies its own space in a big, uncluttered sound field, and each song moves at a pace that reinforces the solemnity of the proceedings.” – The Wire Magazine

"Offering" by Bird By Snow

"It billows, it ebbs, it flows, it trickles, it floods, but most of all, it draws you in. Tucker has a knack for bottling sounds as vast as the Pacific into songs that convey both an intimate charm and a spacious ambiance; they're sprawling but no less direct." – Mixtape Muse

"Everything you need to know and ever felt about Big Sur in one restrained song." [referring to "Wide Open"] – Impose Magazine

"If anyone ever had a doubt about a one-man band creating beautiful music, their doubts can now be laid to rest." – Altsounds

"...utterly compelling tracks full of terrifyingly wide open introspection and communal mysticism rooted in ceremony. Offering is intense." – Tome to the Weather Machine

"Common Wealth" by Bird By Snow

“Something really special... rich, moody songs with an astonishing depth.” – The Bay Bridged

“The vocals sound round and full, like being surrounded by a blanket and then the blanket turns out to actually be some dude’s voice. Which actually, if you really think about it hard, is kind of nightmarish… so maybe don’t think about it that hard. This voice paired with tip-toeing guitar lines and the soft hiss of empty space is basically what it feels like to hole up in a warm wood cabin for awhile.” – The Fader

"Bird By Snow was born in the air between beach fires, big skies, and long-shuttered winter cabins. Let the ‘good flow’ flow with two headily vocaled, woodsy folk tunes harvested from Common Wealth, the new mystical drifter LP available for frost-bitten sleepovers and long, winding walks now." – RCRD LBL

"This is music as natural as sunshine, rolling off his strings and keys like rain off a slick surface." 9 out of 10 – No Ripcord

"Soft and mystical, Bird By Snow have been making dreamy folk pop with psych-ish elements for the past few years... perfectly marrying strong songwriting with an elegant ambiance of needlepoint guitar work, spacious drumming and pretty female backing vocals. A perfect record to cozy up to a fire in the dark winter months." – Aquarius Records

"Common Wealth's strongest quality lies in its inability to be pinned down; Tucker's work is now something that resists easy summary -- one can hear everything from understated folk antecedents to fraught metal extremes to shadowed goth touches throughout its seven songs, but at no point is it simply one of those approaches, or any other one, for that matter." – AllMusic

"Sky" by Bird By Snow

"...more real desolate charm than ever before, this is a record of great intrinsic worth, and manages to do something new and consistent within a genre largely held together by image and one-trick skills. Incredible and very worthwhile." - Dusted Magazine

"...creating an ache in the heart, proving once again the emotional quality of this album, brimming with gently persuasive songs that will remain with you long after the needle has lifted." - Terrascope

"Gentle and true pop here, not to be missed, but almost feels like an animal in danger of extinction. Enjoy the blend of banjo, melodica, autoharp before they pave an overpass across it all. Hell, the two truest “songs” on here are actually open-mic hikes. Tromping through the underbrush, the other lyrical flora bloom fine besides them. There’s even some low-voltage electricity accompanying the two man blended band here." - KFJC Los Altos Public Radio