Carey Mercer’s Blackout Beach project will release a new album, Fuck Death via Dead Oceans on November 15th (14th in the UK).

His description of the record is most illuminating.

“The record is a sibling to the last Blackout Beach record, Skin of Evil. But the longing in Fuck Death is not romantic; these are deserter’s songs, coward’s songs. I am all for reassessing cowardice. The most important lyric on Fuck Death is “run away.” It’s a bit heavy, especially because the dominant 2011 story is that kids want to live on an invisible beach within their hearts and party this stuff away. But not all kids scorn uneasiness. And not all music is made for kids.

I recorded Fuck Death myself, which might be a 2011 thing to do; by that I mean that this record could not have been made with anyone else, anywhere else. I used three synthesizers (two mono, one poly), two drum machines, and one guitar amplifier. Megan Boddy sings with me on most of the songs. I thank her for that.”

Check out the nearly-seven-minutes of creeping, cloying, claustrophobia contained in lead-off track Beautiful Burning Desire – I can’t think of an adjective dark enough to adequately describe this…

Download Blackout Beach – Beautiful Burning Desire mp3 (from Fuck Death)

And here is the full track listing:

Beautiful Burning Desire

Torchlights Banned

Deserter’s Song

Be Forewarned, The Night Has Come

Hornet’s Fury Into The Bandit’s Mouth

Drowning Pigs

Broken Braying of the Donkey’s Cry

Sending Postcards to a Ghost

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