Outblinker’s “The Remains of Walter Peck” EP is an abrasive and aggressive fusion of rock and electronic music recorded and co-written with Ben Power of Blanck Mass and Fuck Buttons. It’s a project with confident fuck you attitude and style.
Quoting from the press release, “Fame is just so fucking futile. That’s the thing about being an outsider. You accept your fate. You know that 50 years from now a bank won’t be butchering your work to flog mortgages to suckers. You make your noise and you watch it echo for a bit then dissipate. Like our protagonist, Walter Peck, your ashes are gradually diluted by a planet of dirt and your music even more rapidly subsumed by the white noise of the world…”
First track “Walter Peck” is an up tempo, industrial banger full of anguish, mystery, and volatility where dark synth tones are the focus. The second track, “Farrokh Bulsara,” generates its ambience with a more soothing approach, and the third, “Ernest Becker,” is the most sinister of the EP’s three songs—developing ominous tones throughout the intro, building with harmonies, and growing at its own pace toward an 11 minute crescendo.
“The Remains of Water Peck” EP is in stores now via Stabbed In The Back Records.
