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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.