"Exhaust" cover for Pyrrhon
Working with Pyrrhon over the years has been a core part of my development as an artist: I see each new Pyrrhon record as a challenge to grow and to do better, because, well, that’s exactly what Pyrrhon has done. These guys push themselves with every release, yet the sound remains unmistakably Pyrrhon. So I always want to match that energy, and bring my best efforts to the album art. Their trust has enabled me to make things I didn’t think I was capable of. I am so proud of what they were able to create for this record, and really proud of how this album cover came out.
Medium: ink (dip nibs, mostly tachikawa mapping nibs), gouache, watercolor on paper. Created in March 2024.
“… Pyrrhon’s fifth member, artist Caroline Harrison, adorns Exhaust with one of her finest album covers, a simultaneously stunning and appalling memento mori of city life. It just is Pyrrhon” – Ian Chainey, Stereogum
“This is what art is all about, depicting something with the feelings of the artist(s) bleeding through the image.” – The Goat Review
“So yes, it’s definitely a dead animal, but it’s also a stunning depiction of nature’s defiance against what appears to be a very violent death (why is the head pulled off?!) and against mankind’s corrupting presence. Fitting that Harrison would deliver her most complex and beautiful Pyrrhon cover yet for the band’s best album to date.” – Zach Duvall, Last Rites
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Ian Chainey, Stereogum's Black Market
09/30/2024"... Pyrrhon’s fifth member, artist Caroline Harrison, adorns Exhaust with one of her finest album covers, a simultaneously stunning and appalling memento mori of city life."
"So yes, it’s definitely a dead animal, but it’s also a stunning depiction of nature’s defiance against what appears to be a very violent death (why is the head pulled off?!) and against mankind’s corrupting presence. Fitting that Harrison would deliver her most complex and beautiful Pyrrhon cover yet for the band’s best album to date."
"To listen to Pyrrhon, CDs or LPs in-hand, is to witness the evolution of two artists at once; every work in their discography features art from Caroline Harrison, the artistic evolution of band and artist indelibly intertwined. No wonder then that Exhaust undoubtedly showcases the finest work from both."
"This is what art is all about, depicting something with the feelings of the artist(s) bleeding through the image."
"The art for Exhaust is a harsh and tragic depiction of death and the self-inflicted destruction of our environment, yet surrounded by the holographic rainbow of the oil spills that wash away in the rain, there is a strange sense of beauty here as well. The visceral and realistic horror is front and center, however, and it’s confrontational in a way few bands or visual artists dare to be."