PYRRHON - Exhaust CD (digipak)

Pyrrhon’s fifth album, Exhaust, is not a concept record. However, many songs touch on where we are in 2024; people are overwhelmed and unable to catch their breath. The album was initially called “Exhaustion,” but drummer Steve Schwegler noticed recurring imagery about cars slowly degrading from overuse - an apt metaphor for an album exploring perpetual burnout. On a larger level, Exhaust is about things - machines or humans - being ground down and never recovering. It also hints at the exhaustion of staying sane in a world overrun with digital devices, social media, holograms, and artificial intelligence.

Exhaust was recorded with longtime Pyrrhon producer Colin Marston in December 2023 at Menegroth, The Thousand Caves studios in Queens, shortly before the studio closed. The album benefits from the band members' other musical pursuits and life changes over the past four years. Moore joined the experimental black metal band Scarcity and became a software developer. DiLella joined the ascendant noise rock band Couch Slut and became a guitar teacher. Bassist Erik Malave studied library science. Schwegler finished college on the GI Bill and got an engineering job