editor's info:

recorded at a cabin in the country, all the original exhaust elements - ultra-low-end bass moan, loping breakbeat trapkit, live reel-to-reel tape scratch - remain at the core of this new studio work.
spliced & diced at the hotel2tango audio workshop during mixing, the record is an abstract slab of minimalist collage. bassist gordon adds bass clarinet on several tracks, while mike (tapes) & aidan (drums) deploy loops, signal processing, machine noise & live beats around slow, stripped-down, see-saw bass guitar. the result is a chill, vaguely paranoid late-night roam through the proverbial deserted city, picking up the occasional sinister, garbled transmission along the way. refreshingly absent are the endlessly
self-replicating strains & sounds of electronica - exhaust focuses squarely on its own organic playing (and broken gear) to craft these electronically-processed tracks, without facile recourse to the 'add-some-blips' strategy that plagues so much so-called post-rock.
aidan's 1-speed bike techno alter-ego is integrated back into exhaust's live trio context; rather than re-mixing stand-alone tracks as he did on the exhaust debut, he cuts, pastes & filters his rhythms all over the new record. combined with gordon & mike's recent forays into sound art and sound environment recordings, all three members have put their heads & ears together to execute a series of controlled experiments sourced from their distinct & deliberate palette of riffs & melodic passages.

Info wydawcy:

recorded at a cabin in the country, all the original exhaust elements - ultra-low-end bass moan, loping breakbeat trapkit, live reel-to-reel tape scratch - remain at the core of this new studio work.
spliced & diced at the hotel2tango audio workshop during mixing, the record is an abstract slab of minimalist collage. bassist gordon adds bass clarinet on several tracks, while mike (tapes) & aidan (drums) deploy loops, signal processing, machine noise & live beats around slow, stripped-down, see-saw bass guitar. the result is a chill, vaguely paranoid late-night roam through the proverbial deserted city, picking up the occasional sinister, garbled transmission along the way. refreshingly absent are the endlessly
self-replicating strains & sounds of electronica - exhaust focuses squarely on its own organic playing (and broken gear) to craft these electronically-processed tracks, without facile recourse to the 'add-some-blips' strategy that plagues so much so-called post-rock.
aidan's 1-speed bike techno alter-ego is integrated back into exhaust's live trio context; rather than re-mixing stand-alone tracks as he did on the exhaust debut, he cuts, pastes & filters his rhythms all over the new record. combined with gordon & mike's recent forays into sound art and sound environment recordings, all three members have put their heads & ears together to execute a series of controlled experiments sourced from their distinct & deliberate palette of riffs & melodic passages.