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. 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. Elegiac and smoldering with hope, Buckaroo sticks with you: a perfect snapshot of a vivid time.