Last year we got to hear an unusual album from Blackout Beach entitled Fuck Death . Unusual because it set out to deal with the theme of war. Like PJ Harvey's Let England Shake , Fuck Death is a gratifying listen, and special since it's so connected to our immediate history. When so much contemporary music deals with history only in the sense of stolen styles, Blackout Beach's Carey Mercer has instead articulated a meditative response to the violent struggle for power that we have seen all around us – be it in Afghanistan, Syria or [...]
carey mercer hatte ich, wenn ich das richtig recherchiert habe, zuletzt im februar 2009 auf dem sender. auch in jener notiz ging es um das blackout beach benannte projekt, mit dem sich der umtriebige frog eyes verantwortliche und das swan lake mitglied nebenher beschäftigt. damals ging es um die ideale frau, die er einer griechischen sage nach beschrieb. auch mit dem neuen album "fuck death" ist eine intensive thematische auseinandersetzung verbunden. diesmal suchte mercer die verbindung von schönheit und krieg, er ließ sich über drei jahre für diese aufgabe zeit. inspiriert wurde er von einem gemälde des amerikanischen [...]
Blackout Beach - The Roman Begrudgingly, he thought, the scenery in Java is impressive. There's waves of trees interrupted frequently by babbling brooks with smooth, gray rocks to step across. It's gorgeous to look at. But he would have preferred a postcard. Slipping in his muddy, wet sandals, he lurched along the path toward, allegedly, a waterfall a few kilometers outside of Sentul, a rich suburb of Jakarta. He spent most of his time in Indonesia trying to get away from the people, an abrasive, caustic race. It wasn't the mildly [...]
Frying saxophone solos! Synthesizers recreating lost sunny days! Nihilistically lewd mixtapes inspiring dozens of new entries on Urban Dictionary! Tricked-out dubstep for American mall rats! The musical trends that defined much of 20112s critically-lauded output were roundly ignored by my favorite records of the year. The best albums of the year invented their own one-band microgenres. EMA gave us California confessional poetry, while WU LYF reinvented protest punk for a generation without a cause. Wolves in the Throne Room continued to hone their environmental black metal. Das Racist refined their postmodern identity joke rap. Peaking Lights invented Midwestern dub, and [...]
Frog Eyes' Cary Mercer has always been a genre-bending performer. Whether he's creating songs with only organ sounds or letting out his signature banshee yell, the man is almost impossible to classify. Side project Blackout Beach is no exception. Blackout Beach's latest record is Fuck Death (Dead Oceans), with lead single "Be Forewarned, The Night Has Come." [...]
Blackout Beach is Frog Eyes frontman Carey Mercer's solo project, and its third album, Fuck Death, shares many characteristics with the work of his full band. There are the requisite unintelligible lyrics and obscure cultural references, nods to Agamemnon and "Chinese soldier poems." There is the deliberate and sometimes frustrating obliqueness. The songs are [...]
Fuck Death is the third Blackout Beach album from Carey Mercer, breathy frontman for indie-rock heroes Frog Eyes and Swan Lake and his first for art-indie hub Dead Oceans. Mercer says the album was "an attempt to make something about beauty and war," inspired by seeing Platoon as a 10 year old and reading Chinese soldier poems as an adult (among a list of other things describes in great detail on the Dead Oceans site) Read more »
Blackout Beach Fuck Death Dead Oceans Records [2011] Fire Note Says: Blackout Beach does not disappoint on third LP as Carey Mercer once again will challenge your brain. Album Review: I don't think there is any argument that Carey Mercer (Frog Eyes, Swan Lake) has released some complex records and on his third long player, under his Blackout Beach moniker, you may add Fuck Death [...]
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by teepoo Blackout Beach is Carey Mercer from Frog Eyes and Swan Lake which I never really was very fond of so was never posted here, but his latest solo project Blackout Beach is pretty intriguing. It sort of reminds me of the reasons why I love Timber Timbre , that sort of folk-eeriness. Blackout Beach takes it slightly further with much more synths. Check out Beautiful Burning Desire from his latest Fuck Death . Blackout Beach- Beautiful Burning Desire
The Decemberists latest EP of outtakes from The King is Dead is titled Long Live the King , but unfortunately it will serve as the last new release from the band as they previously announced an extended hiatus (supposedly years) as the band's members move onto other creative efforts. They join Broken Social Scene and Wolf Parade as victims in 2011's indie rock early retirement game, a frightening prospect that is looking more and more like a trend. I don't really have a theory why so many "big" indie rock bands are going on extended hiatuses [...]
Blackout Beach - Deserter's Song I've been saying the Jesus Prayer lately. I picked it up from Mitchell, a character in Jeffrey Eugenides' novel The Marriage Plot, who got it from Franny, a character imagined up by J.D. Salinger, who nicked it from The Way of the Pilgrim. It goes: Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me, a sinner. Like everything passed down through centuries of jumbled church doctrine, it's somewhat obscured. The original reads: Lord Jesus Christ, Son [...]
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(Dead Oceans, 2011) Long-term hypothetical boyfriend, Carey Mercer, dismisses death, cusses, takes our relationship to the next level. Blackout Beach "Beautiful Burning Desire" by DOJAGSC
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Blackout Beach - "Be Forewarned, the Night Has Come" In April of 1988, the planet slowly unzipped itself. It began beneath the ocean and ran up the frozen beaches of the New Siberian Islands. It ran slowly across Russia (then the USSR) and no one even noticed until it neared the border of Kazakhstan. It continued through Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, right through Mali, and cut Brazil in half. Many took the opportunity to panic, many to celebrate. There were lovers separated and families permanently cleft. There was even a movie theatre in Cairo, showing [...]
This week's Best New Releases includes a bounty of new singles from bands we never heard of before, but are so glad we have. First, we start off with the most obvious lead singles from new albums by Crystal Stilts and Los Campesinos. Although Crystal Stilts released their CD and MP3 version of their new [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
I've always had something of a love/hate (well, more like like/indifferent) relationship with Casey Mercer's music. His work in Frog Eyes never really resonated with me the way it seemed to for everyone else listening, but his contributions to both of Swan Lake 's records were easily some of my favourites. Yet what I imagine will be most determining in how I relate to Mercer's work would be Blackout Beach 's Fuck Death , the sophomoric effort from his eerie solo project. In the release release, Mercer describes the record as "a sibling [...]
Iconoclastic maniac/Frog Eyes frontman Carey Mercer has multiple outlets for releasing excellent music, with Blackout Beach there for his solo material. The last album to be released under that moniker, 20092s Skin of Evil , was a dizzying stack of Mercerian goodness, the guitarist/vocalist's trademark sprawling songs full of ecstatic guitar and yelping, impassioned vocals. Despite the fact that Mercer has described his new Blackout Beach disc, Fuck Death , as "a sibling" to that previous release, this one finds the eccentric writer focused on synths and electronic drums more often than [...]
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