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The Shell Corporation - Mandrake CD SR053

Their second full length.

Foreign wars, domestic spying, extrajudicial assassination, TSA, NSA, CIA, FBI, NRO. Tapped phones, backdoors, trapdoors, spider holes, air raids, drug raids, drone strikes, BART strikes, shock and awe, boots on the ground, surges, tapers, too big to fail, too big to jail, bubbles, inflation, ZIRP, the Fed, the Squid, intervention, non-intervention, EUR, ECB, PIIGS. Carmageddon, snowmageddon, superstorms, rising seas, shrinking ice, oil sheens. Fracking, cracking, fission, fusion, centrifuges, dirty bombs, atom bombs, homemade bombs. Freedom fighters, rebel fighters, jihad, regime change, crackdowns, beatdowns, whistleblowers, wikileaks, change and hope, slippery slopes. Crank up the signal to noise ratio.

The Shell Corporation.

Mandrake.

The Death of Us Video - www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5-psCbXR3k

Track Listing:
1. Appetite For Distraction
2. The Death Of Us
3. Remember, Remember
4. Trust Us
5. Hear Them Wail
6. Even Bob Vila Couldn't Fix This Old House
7. Bombs Away
8. Maguire's Plea
9. 60 Hours
10. The Message
11. Perfect World

SR053

Jan - vocals
Curtiss - guitar
Seantonamo Bay - bass
Jake - drums

Recorded @ The Lighthouse Recording
Produced / Engineered / Mixed by Chris Hesse
Except for "Bombs Away", "Bob Vila", & "60 Hours" by Jamie McMann
Mastered by Stephen Egerton @ Armstrong Recording

All song written by The Shell Corporation except for "Bombs Away" by The Police

Cover art by Luc Martin

Preorder Now, CD out 2/25/14! (will ship earlier)

Pressing Information

CD via Solidarity Recordings - Out 2/25/14
Vinyl via Paper + Plastick Records - Out 4/1/2014