The Sad Sea

Infobox Album
Name = The Sad Sea
Type = Album
Artist = Hotel Hotel


Released = October 7, 2008
Genre = Post-rock
Length = 44:44
Producer = Patrick Patterson P. D. Wilder
Label = Silber Media
Last album = "Under Sea, Over Storm" (2008)
This album = "The Sad Sea" (2008)
Next album =

"The Sad Sea" is the second album from Texas post-rock band Hotel Hotel. It continues the sea theme first started in the prequel EP to this album, "Under Sea, Over Storm". Both are concept albums about dealing with the loss everything while lost out to sea.

Track #2 and #6 are named after the Dirac Sea, while #3 is name after the Mary Celeste.

Four tracks are without drums, despite that the band has had three drummers in while recording "The Sad Sea".

Track listing

#from harbour
#the dirac sea (lower tide)
#mary celeste
#equator in the meantime (black sabbath)
#the shoreline has disappeared (an hour and a half ago)
#the dirac sea (high tide)
#the captain goes down with the ship (sinking)
#the captain goes down with the ship (drowning)

Background

Hotel Hotel signed to Silber Media in early 2007 with the idea for the "The Sad Sea" already in place. However, just before the band was scheduled to begin recording, Evan Caverninha, the original drummer disappeared in april 2007, having never talked to anyone else the in band except for violinist Patrick Patterson a handful of times in 2008. During the recording of the album, their second drummer, J. Adam Butera also left, forcing the band to find another drummer once again. Finally, in spring 2008, the band brought abroad Ed Warga.

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