Frog Eyes Carey's Cold Spring

Carey Mercer has announced a new album as Frog Eyes - his first since 2010's Paul's Tomb: A Triumph. It's called Carey's Cold Spring, and he'll release it on October 7.

Mercer writes that Carey's Cold Spring is not a concept album, but in the three year period he spent working on it, he thought a lot about "riots, occupy, revolutions, storms, floods, melodramatic gestures, leftist factions, mass marches in the streets, the sheer and shocking crookedness of our political and economic system, fear of the right, fear of torture, of murder, of future firing squads, of the consequences of idealism, of the consequences of having no ideals or ideas."

"A part of this record is deeply fearful, almost paranoid, the sound of a person grinding his or her teeth in the night," he writes. "But just a part of it. It's also the sound of the birds in the morning, I hope."

1.
The Road is Long
2.
The Country Child
3.
Your Holiday Treat
4.
Don't Give Up Your Dreams
5.
Needle in the Sun
6.
Noni's Got a Taste For the Bright Red Air Jordans
7.
A Duration of Starts and Lines That Form Code
8.
Seven Daughters
9.
Claxxon's Lament