Swan Lake Archives

Carey Mercer (Frog Eyes, Swan Lake) Talks Zachary Cale’s Duskland

By Carey Mercer | September 17, 2015

Zachary Cale's album might sound timeless, yet it's rooted in a very specific time: sunset. But the sunset of what? A day, an empire, an era?

By Carey Mercer | January 30, 2015

Jessica Pratt’s second album is a total beauty. And not just because it illustrates the difference between letting yourself be and capital-B Being.

By Carey Mercer | July 22, 2014

What does it mean when a band from a conservative Canadian town names itself after Southeast Asian Communist rebels from the '60s?

By Carey Mercer | May 29, 2014

One month or one year ago — it doesn't really matter now — somewhere and some time — I can't remember — in this late-era at least, in the...

By Carey Mercer | October 12, 2013

An essay about bringing a curse upon myself and my family by naming a record Fuck Death, and my repentance, and what I did in July...

By Carey Mercer | May 16, 2013

‪Josephine Foster's Blood Rushing was recorded in the Colorado mountains, high up in the gold-green air — recorded as a band playing together...