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Shot/edited by Keith Mason

Taken from the upcoming Biker LP
Aarght Records AARGHT031
Release date: 31 October 2014

Emerging from Australia, Exhaustion wield the negative, downer rock sensibility like they invented it. Their second LP, Biker, is set for worldwide release via Aarght Records on October 31st.

Biker unleashes seven slabs of free-form guitar and ecstatic No Wave atonality atop giant churning bass and thundering motorik drums, with the occasional slice of quotidian automatic poetry. The rhythm section of bassist Jensen Tjhung (Deaf Wish, Lower Plenty) and drummer Per Byström (Ooga Boogas, Leather Towel) display a mantra-like devotion to repetition that goes beyond rock genre moves into zones of pure intensity, anchoring the band’s blown-out epics with pummelling lock grooves as vocalist/guitarist Duncan Blachford dispenses riotous improvised six-string sizzle in a style that synthesises classic post-Hendrix psych and the reverb/delay clouds of the Mizutani/Haino tradition with the amplified-plank-of-wood rawness of Bruce Russell. Recorded in gristly no-frills fidelity at the band’s own studio, Biker is a high-potency emission from the deepest reaches of the Melbourne underground.