{"id":21513,"date":"2016-05-08T15:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T19:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=21513"},"modified":"2016-05-08T08:13:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T12:13:13","slug":"outblinker-releases-remains-walter-peck-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=21513","title":{"rendered":"Outblinker releases &#8216;The Remains of Walter Peck EP&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outblinker\u00a0have released their EP &#8216;The Remains of Walter Peck,&#8217; out now via\u00a0Stabbed In The Back Records<b>\u00a0<\/b>and available to buy via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/t.ymlp53.com\/jwummaoaejuhyafahmyavawquw\/click.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Bandcamp<\/a>. You can take a listen to\u00a0<em>Farrokh Bulsara <\/em>via Soundcloud, which is lifted from the EP.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F249477682&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&color=afacaa\"><\/iframe>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can also stream the video for <em>Walter Peck<\/em> via Youtube\u00a0below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6unSyPCa-xg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Quite simply Outblinker <em>\u201cplay music and aim to improve your life thusly\u201d<\/em>, but with the release of &#8216;The Remains of Walter Peck,&#8217;\u00a0the band wanted to explain the experiences that led up to their new EP:\u00a0<em>&#8220;Fame is just so fucking futile. That&#8217;s the thing about being an outsider. You accept your fate. You know that 50 years from now a bank won&#8217;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,\u00a0Walter 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.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In many ways, Outblinker owes it&#8217;s existence to Walter and certainly this EP would never have been recorded or co-written with\u00a0Benjamin John Power\u00a0(Blanck Mass\/ Fuck Buttons) were it not for Mr. Peck&#8217;s unifying influence. His friendships, a chance meeting, a jar of human remains and a table of beers. It&#8217;s a long story. Suffice to say he&#8217;d suggest we enjoy it while it lasts.<\/p>\n<p>The EP was recorded\u00a0in a medieval church on a remote island in Orkney, its\u00a0three songs are a precursor to Outblinker&#8217;s debut album (due October 2016) and a tribute to the transitory, fleeting nature of everything we seek to build and accomplish. All the beauty, all the greed, all the pride and all the fucking politics. Given long enough, none of it will last. And thank fuck for that.<\/p>\n<p>When the lights across the planet finally go out for the last time and all the MP3s evaporate in microscopic puffs of electrons and all the CD&#8217;s lie scattered across the land like the scales of some huge, extinct fish: what then for all these idiotic fucking pop songs? And what then for the\u00a0Bach\u00a0and\u00a0Simone,\u00a0Mercury\u00a0and\u00a0Mingus?<\/p>\n<p>Nothing. That&#8217;s what. Sweet anonymity. Sheer oblivion.<\/p>\n<p>And as time marches on ceaselessly into that eerie, silent new era, none of those chart anthems will mean any more than the centuries of forgotten folk music, decades of shitty demo tapes or the deluge of vacuous, ironic, indie shit currently sloshing around. How will\u00a0Virgin,\u00a0Warner,\u00a0Universal\u00a0and\u00a0Sony\u00a0trick kids into buying their cynical, hollow bullshit then? Especially when there are no kids left to fleece.<\/p>\n<p>Art is for now so eat your fill. You&#8217;re not taking it with you and ultimately there&#8217;s no point leaving it here. Walter Peck taught us that much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Outblinker\u00a0have released their EP &#8216;The Remains of Walter Peck,&#8217; out now via\u00a0Stabbed In The Back Records\u00a0and available to buy via\u00a0Bandcamp. 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