BLACKOUT BEACH Light Flows the Putrid Dawn · SAB 006 <<SAB 005 · SAB 007>>
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01. If I Were Not Alexander, I Would Like to Be _ _ _ _ _
02. The Swineherd Sings and the Fountain Dwellers Grow Apart
03. Krull Courtship
04. The Putrid Dawn is Only for Us Baby
05. Fever of the Patriots
06. New Soft and Shimmering Motherhood Alliance
07. See: There is the Wisest Son of an All Wise Father
08. The Stuttered XXX Breeze XXX
09. 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 is the solo vehicle for Carey Mercer (Frog Eyes, Blue Pine, Swan Lake). Like his work with Frog Eyes, his Blackout Beach recordings dwell in a land all their own, with Mercer's unique vocal and lyrical approach very much at the forefront. A fourteen-part song cycle, Light Flows The Putrid Dawn finds Mercer in rare form; imagine Don Van Vliet's version of The Marble Index and you're traveling down the right path. His intense, miniature epics slowly build, swell and expand to the brink of collapse. Contains a retooled version of "Meadows and Madames" from Frog Eyes' Emboldened Navigator EP.

 

SELECTED REVIEWS
Pitchfork · Delusions of Adequacy · Indie Workshop · Tiny Mix Tapes · Foxy Digitalis · Junkmedia
 
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