Career
Following the breakup of the Canadian indie rock band in 2001, members Mercer and Michael Rak reunited to form a new group. Mercer also began writing music on the side for his solo project, and in 2004, released the album Light Flows the Putrid Dawn through Soft Abuse Records. His follow-up, Skin of Evil was released January 27, 2009.
In November of 2011, he released Fuck Death on Dead Oceans.
In 2006, Mercer teamed up with comrades Spencer Krug (of Sunset Rubdown and Wolf Parade) and Dan Bejar (of Destroyer and The New Pornographers) to form the supergroup. The band released Beast Moans through Jagjaguwar Records on November 21, 2006.
Enemy Mine, the second album from was released on March 24, 2009.