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  • Summary: Carey Mercer recorded his second album under the name Blackout Beach by himself.

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  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 8
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  1. Tiny Mix Tapes
    Nov 23, 2011
    90
    Fuck Death will blow your mind.
  2. cokemachineglow
    Nov 22, 2011
    85
    It's not perfect, but in the context of its subject matter one feels like its accidents are worth more than another album's successes.
  3. Under The Radar
    Dec 13, 2011
    60
    Mercer always has been and always will be an acquired taste. If you're already on team Mercer, Fuck death should only reinforce your commitment. Oct 2011, p.96]
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  1. skipper123
    10
    You know how some album reviews just like pick this pretentious, vivid metaphor for their review and it becomes a recurring thing that can completely cloud over or even ruin the album for some people? Like RANDOM SPIRIT LOVER by Sunset Rubdown as the crazy onstage and offstage shenanigans of a theatre company: I hate that, it’s so tacky. But **** DEATH reminds me of a battlefield. The darkness and confusion of a battlefield, and of being just a footman on that battlefield, helpless to the big causes but still trying to survive in your own little way. The same feeling of smallness looking up at the stars kind of thing. And I haven’t picked apart the lyrics in a very detailed way so this is still pretty early, Carey Mercer lyrics usually take time to translate their full meanings to you anyways, and I only ended up actually purchasing the vinyl a week or so ago, though I’d been streaming the album pretty regularly because it is friggin awesome. But immediately, this hits me harder than Paul’s Tomb did. It’s an album you listen to in the dark. I am really impressed by the album art too, the shining of the flashlight into the black. Man, this is all over the place. The album is about war, and I suppose war is just a scenario for the human spirit to go to its darkest extremes. And Carey Mercer goes there too with this album, but it’s music, which ¬(to me) is crazy. The lyrics are human: honestly desperate, honestly cowardly, honestly hateful. And these feelings aren’t ever expressed outright, it’s just the overall impression of the entire album that creates it. To me, it’s perfect in its own way. For what it’s about, it’s perfect. It’s not a band album, so there’s not the pressure to have a specific or expected sound. I love how it can be so gritty with feedback and rawness like Broken Braying Sound of the Donkey's Cry, but still be so simple with parts that are just carried by synth and his vocals. He doesn't go overboard on this album, that yipping and crazy abrasiveness that still keeps me away from early Frog Eyes isn't here. I think this is Carey Mercer letting the ideas of the songs drive the songs, not him driving the songs to his own style. Does that make sense? I don't know, this is probably an awful review, but I've been listening to this album on repeat while brainstorming writing a novel about a rock band that tours around a post-apocalyptic wasteland to try to create beauty out of darkness, and I was inspired.… Expand
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