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“Kin” (2025)

• “[With] hypnotic, multi-tracked spoken-word poetry delivered over a droning swell of ‘breathing’ instruments…. Big Sur artist Fletcher Tucker’s musical practice endeavors to connect with the land, the people, and the invisible ancestors around him” – The Fader

• “For fans of the sum total of the energy of all living things.” – Outside Noise

• “Kin takes cues from ambient, outsider folk, and new age, but as one coherent piece of music, it sounds like absolutely nothing else.” – Pop Matters (8/10)

• “Our owls here enjoy Fletcher’s poetry” – Aaron Weaver of Wolves in the Throne Room

• “This one feels like it’s come crawling out of a cave older than memory… ancient, psychedelic folk at its most spellbinding”  – Where the Music Meets

• “Kin genuinely sounds like nothing else, an album full of ritualistic sonic patterns and precisely detailed shifts in tone and mood, an album rooted less in a single landscape than in the very idea of landscape, and all the ancientness and weirdness that implies.” – Klof Mag

• “feral dirges and tangy earth mantras that reflect a more haunted and desperate sense of wilderness love” – Erik Davis

• “Cooked up in the depths of the Big Sur wilderness, Kin feels like it was born from the earth itself. Droning nature meditations from a Californian mystic.” – Uncut Magazine (8/10)

• “In an age when our default cultural settings place us ‘outside’ or ‘apart’ from nature, Tucker’s music reminds us that we are instead of a piece with it—natural expressions of its continual process, just like the tall trees, writhing dirt dwellers, and mountains themselves. This isn’t a record for passive listening, but one made for contemplation, meditation, and connection, songs made to extoll the kinship that permeates our existence...” – Aquarium Drunkard

• Named one of All Songs Considered’s (NPR) “Best New Albums”

“Unlit Trail” (2021)

• “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
  

"Cold Spring" (2017)

• “Tucker sinks into the redwoods and roots out something ancient and always. A truly incredible record." 
  – LARS GOTRICH, NPR

• “Fletcher Tucker's deep immersion masterpiece... a powerful and haunting transmission of fire and earth." 
  – DEVENDRA BANHART

• “An arboraceous, psychedelic journey that reveals more with each listen." 
  – AQUARIUM DRUNKARD

• “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