Buck 65 will return on February 28 with a new album release through Warner Bros., 20 Odd Years.

Created to mark the two decades that Buck – real name Richard Terfry – has been making music, 20 Odd Years is the follow-up to 2007’s Situation, the album which saw earned him much critical acclaim and a wide audience outside of the leftfield hip-hop faithful that constitute his core fanbase. It compiles eleven tracks from the trilogy of 20 Odd Years vinyl/digital EPs that came out in 2010 – Avant, Distance and Albuquerque – and adds two brand new cuts, ‘Whispers of The Waves’ and ‘Stop’.

Recently I came to realize that I’ve been getting weird on tape for twenty years,” the Canadian artist says. “I decided to celebrate and invited a bunch of my fellow sub-normals to the party. We ate paste [pasta?] and pretended we knew what each other was talking about. It was uncomfortable a lot of the time, but lots of exciting music was Frankensteined.”

Those sub-normals are Gord Downier (of Tragically Hip), John Southworth, Nick Thorburn (The Unicorns, Mister Heavenly), Jenn Grant, Hannah Georgas, Marie-Pierre Arthur and French pop star Olivia Ruiz.

Oh, and Buck 65 plays live at London’s Hoxton Bar & Grill tonight, February 21; tickets are sold out.

Tracklist:
1. Superstars Don’t Love
2. Gee Whiz
3. Whispers of the Waves
4. Paper Airplanes
5. Stop
6. Zombie Delight
7. Tears of Your Heart
8. Cold Steel Drum
9. Who by Fire
10. She Said Yes
11. BCC
12. Lights Out
13. Final Approach