Vinyl included coupon for download of the record. Blackout Beach's Carey Mercer is one of Canada's acclaimed cult songwriters, and also one of its most prolific, also performing in Frog Eyes and Swan Lake.

"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. -- Carey Mercer, Blackout Beach