This thought had hijacked my time…

Posted by pepearljam on 25 February, 2013
Posted in: Blues, Experimental, Folk, Lo Fi, Minimalist, Psychedelic, Rock. Tagged: , . 1 Comment
Carey Mercer Guitar Hero


Last night I felt like required to make a post about how amazing and underrated Carey Mercer/ blackout beach solo project so here it is.

It seems like I have been searching weird music this weekend to post. But as I think about it, I am not sure if the music was different or if it was my ears, or my brain´s perception of the sounds was sensitive after see Rodriguez documentary.

This thought had hijacked my time , when I found that  in these days Frog Eyes’ Carey Mercer, in the guise of his Blackout Beach solo project, has back revisited their Fuck Death. album, to reinterpret these songs with a new approach and has put out another incredible record  named  Blues Trip..

Mercer can being anything but tiresome, he  has taken a  different route to  rock than most of the artists I’ve been posted lately. He certain has made his share through his spastic,  lovely  voice  in his bands ,  with a sutil display of raw hypnotic energy,  making  his  songs  above all catchy.  So, instead of being irresistible by overwhelming force, he has used guile and charming song craft to make epic  albums .

To purchase or download your copies, can  go to their  bandcamp or Dead Oceans  pages . I think you’ll be happy with either.

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Blackout Beach ‎– Light Flows The Putrid Dawn

Label:Soft Abuse ‎

Format:CD, Album 

Country:US

Released:2004

Layout – Jerrod Landon Porter
Mastered By – Tolan McNeil
Performer – Carey Mercer

Tracklist

1 If I Were Not Alexander, I Would Like To Be _ _ _

2 The Swineherd Sings And The Fountain Dwellers Grow Apart

3 Krull Courtship

4 The Putrid Dawn Is Only For Us Baby

5 Fever Of The Patriots

6 New Soft And Shimmering Motherhood Alliance

7 See: There Is The Wisest Son Of An All Wise Father

8 The Stuttered XXX Breeze XXX

9 The Painted Forest Screen Hides Its Witch:

10 The Reticent Burglar’s Den

11 The Transfiguration Of BO-BRICK-IUS

12 Meadows And Pleasant Madames Or Something Of The Sort

13 The Hobo Who Learned To Eat Stone

14 The Quiet Merchant Gets His Song Too

  

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Blackout Beach ‎– Skin Of Evil

Label:Soft Abuse ‎

Format:CD, Album 

Country:US

Released:2009

Tracklist

1 Cloud Of Evil 3:53

2 Biloxi, In A Grove, Cleans Out His Eyes 5:01

3 Three Men Drown In The River 2:12

4 William, The Crowd, It’s William 1:29

5 The Roman 3:15

6 Woe To The Minds Of Soft Men 0:55

7 The Whistle 3:15

8 Nineteen, One God, One Dull Star 4:00

9 Sophia, Donna, I Was Down The River Waiting 1:48

10 Astoria, Menthol Lite, Hilltop, Wave Of Evil, 1982

  

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Blackout Beach  – Live at the Orange Hall

released 30 January 2011 
Megan Boddy plays the piano and sings 
Melanie Campbell plays drums 
Carey Mercer plays guitar and sings
This is a live record from August 2010 of the only Blackout Beach live performance, focusing on mostly tracks off of Skin of Evil, released by Soft Abuse records. I read some poems and stories. My mom did the door, and my dad was the bouncer. My friends came. It was a nice night. All tracks are 24-bit 48 whatever…
Tracklist

1.Claxxon’s Lament 05:00

2.Biloxi, in a Grove, Cleans Out His Eyes 04:32

3.The Whistle 04:19

4.Sophia, Donna, I Was Down the River Waiting 03:08

5.Cloud of Evil 04:29

6.Bushels (live) 07:09

7.A Latex Ice Age 06:50

  

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Blackout Beach ‎– Fuck Death

Label:Dead Oceans ‎

Format:CD, Album 

Country:US

Released:15 Nov 2011

Tracklist

1 Beautiful Burning Desire

2 Torchlights Banned

3 Deserter’s Song

4 Be Forwarned, The Night Has Come

5 Hornet’s Fury Into The Bandit’s Mouth

6 Drowning Pigs

7 Broken Braying Sound Of The Donkey’s Cry

8 Sending Postcards To A Ghost

  

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Blackout Beach   – 11 Pink Helicopters in the Coral Sky

released 20 February 2012 
Photo: Harry Booth. All music by Carey Mercer.

Tracklist

1.Blackout Beach – Maj Floyd and the Presets 02:09

2.Hypnagogic Blue 01:46

3.The Tunnel 01:39

4.Inverted Dread 03:59

5.Dancing to Brew Up Joy in the Body 01:34

6.The Magical Flute 01:48

7.Sea Twinkles 00:31

8.Sign of Harry 01:28

9.Trumpet of Taste Ambassador 00:48

10.Mt Harsh 01:37

11.Pink Helicopters 03:27

  

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Blackout Beach – Blues Trip

released 18 February 2013 
Melanie Campbell: drums 
Carey Mercer: guitar, vocals 
Dante Decaro: bass, keys 
Dan Bejar sings a few key lines on a few tracks 
Tracked by Dante Decaro, vocals and 2nd guitar tracked by Carey Mercer 
Mixed through a Grommes Precision mono tube mixer by Carey Mercer
Mastered by Carl Saff, 
and the beautiful images are, again, photographs by Harry Booth: 

Tracklist

1.Hornet’s Fury Into The Bandit’s Mouth (BT) 04:49

2.Deserter’s Song (BT) 02:25

3.Beautiful Burning Desire (BT) 04:32

4.Broken Braying Sound Of The Donkey’s Cry (BT) 03:45

5.Torchlights Banned (BT) 04:15

6.Be Forewarned, The Night Has Come (BT) 04:20

7.Cloud Of Evil (BT) 03:20

8.Sending Postcards To A ghost (BT) 04:39

  

Blackout Beach

New Release


Blues Trip

Biography

Carey Mercer started Blackout Beach as solo endeavor soon after the demise of his brilliant first band, Blue Pine, in 2001. Frog Eyes began around this time, too. Blackout Beach has since become a living, breathing thing, a trio, with Mercer at the helm.

Discography

Light Flows the Putrid Dawn CD (2004, Soft Abuse)
Claxxon’s Lament 7” [lathe] (2007, Soft Abuse)
Skin of Evil CD/LP (2009, Soft Abuse)
Live at the Orange Hall DL (2011, Self-Released)
Fuck Death LP (2011, Dead Oceans)
11 Pink Helicopters in the Coral Sky DL (2012, Self-Released)
Blues Trip DL/LP (2013, Soft Abuse)

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