“Abandon: The concept of leaving completely and finally forsake utterly; desert: to abandon a child; to abandon a sinking ship.
To give up; discontinue; withdraw from: to abandon hope. To give up the control of: to abandon a city to an enemy army.
To yield (oneself) without restraint or moderation; give (oneself) over to natural impulses, usually without self-control: to abandon oneself.
Law. to cast away, leave, or desert, as property or a child. Obsolete. To banish.”
Following the unrestrained act of aggression that was 2014's “Altamont Rising”, SHIFT returns to more personal and ethereal domains on “Abandon”.
Created over a ten year period from a huge cache of sources, boiled down to four tracks of unyielding slow moving heaviness.
Abandon features several guest appearances and is SHIFT's most complex recording to date.
1. To Rid Them All And To Wash Their Filth From My Body
2. Nothing – No One
3. Recaptured II
4. Armed, Disturbed, Hostile