This Is Desolation Explained

This Is Desolation
Type:	Album
Artist:	Shell Beach
Cover:	This Is Desolation.jpg
Released:	21 January 2013
Recorded:	2012
Genre:	Post-hardcore
Length:	42:48
Label:	Redfield, Germany
Producer:	Dávid Schram
Prev Title:	Acronycal
Prev Year:	2007

This Is Desolation is the second full-length studio album recorded by Shell Beach.^[1] It was released in November, 2012.

Recording and production

The band worked on this 11-song record for the past two years. The album has 11 tracks and includes Matt Geise of Lower Definition (Ferret) / Dance Gavin Dance (Rise Records) and Zeek as special guest vocalists in two of the songs, with Tamás Somló (Lokomotiv GT) playing the clarinet on track #9. The second record further helped Shell Beach get established as the most prominent band of the Hungarian and Budapest post-hardcore scenes.^[2] The album was recorded in Pannonia Studios and mixed and mastered by Dávid Schram.

Music videos

Vital Signs, the first music video for the album was released in November, 2012.^[3] The video has been selected and placed in rotation on MTV Hungary^[4] and VIVA Hungary.^[5]

Track listing

1. "Hoverboards Don`t Work On Water"
2. "The Greatest Skeptic"
3. "Vital Signs"
4. "This Arm, These Vessels"
5. "Saviour"
6. "Hirudinean"
7. "Bjornoya"
8. "Black Xross"
9. "Sit Down, Navigator"
10. "Ghoat Node"
11. "The Sleep Paralysis (ft. Zeek)"

Personnel

The following people contributed to This Is Desolation:

Shell Beach

• Zoltán Totik – vocals
• Pál Somló – guitars, background-vocals
• Viktor Sági – guitars
• Mátyás Mohácsi – bass
• Dániel Ivánfi – drums

Additional musicians and production

• Tamás Somló - clarinet (9)
• Matt Geise - vocals (1)
• MC Zeek - vocals (11)
• Dávid Schram - production, mixing and mastering

External links

• This Is Desolation at Redfield Records webpage

Notes and References

1. Web site: Shell Beach's Official Website. 25 February 2013. Shell Beach.
2. Web site: Hazai Hét: Shell Beach – This is Desolation.
3. Web site: Vital Signs - Shell Beach-klippremier.
4. Web site: Vital Signs Shell Beach Klipek MTV Magyarország . www.mtv.co.hu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121213235710/http://www.mtv.co.hu/music/artists/shell-beach/videos/vital-signs-863676/ . 2012-12-13.
5. Web site: MTV Magyarország.