“Future Eaters, the 2013 debut by the Australian trio Exhaustion, suggested that the band prized playing over writing. That's not a knock. The few functional, elongated parts composing each song foreground distinct instrumentalists: Jensen Tjhung’s bass lines warily orbit downcast motifs; Per Byström’s thuggish drumbeats explode into cymbal work evocative of shrapnel; and, perhaps most prominently,”
