DOWNLOAD AND LISTEN: Blackout Beach
By Mali
What year is it again? 1982? No? Blackout Beach is the solo nom de guerre of Carey Mercer (from Frog Eyes and Swan Lake), and Skin of Evil is his second full-length. Originally slated for a Dec. 2008 release, the record will now see the light of day on Jan. 20, 2009. Composed, played and recorded entirely by Mercer alone, these songs revel in the dark side of the heady proto-punk Cleveland axis (e.g. Peter Laughner, David Thomas) with a minimal, textural & almost Suicide-ish sense of pop form and the experimental nature of recent Scott Walker works.
Check out “Astoria, Menthol Lite, Hilltop, Wave of Evil, 1982″:
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Blackout Beach
Blackout Beach
Skin of Evil
(Soft Abuse)
Street date: Jan. 20, 2009
01. Cloud of Evil
02. Biloxi, In a Grove, Cleans Out His Eyes
03. William, the Crowd, It’s William
04. The Roman
05. Woe to the Minds of Soft Men
06. The Whistle
07. Nineteen, One God, One Dull Star
08. Three Men Drown in the River
09. Sophia, Donna, I Was Down the River Waiting
10. Astoria, Menthol Lite, Hilltop, Wave of Evil, 1982
