The Lean Years
from Abscess Time by Pyrrhon
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Record/Vinyl + Digital AlbumThe vinyl or cassette version of Abscess Time includes the exclusive bonus track "Eternity" which takes up the entire side D of the second LP. This track is ONLY available on vinyl or cassette and is not currently found on any other formats or downloads it is exclusive to the physical vinyl or cassette only.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital AlbumThe vinyl or cassette version of Abscess Time includes the exclusive bonus track "Eternity" which takes up the entire side D of the second LP. This track is ONLY available on vinyl or cassette and is not currently found on any other formats or downloads it is exclusive to the physical vinyl or cassette only.
SOURCED FROM A DEDICATED VINYL MASTER
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125 Copies on Orange/Purple Merge
All copies are mailed in ultra heavyweight vinyl mailers.
IN STOCK AND SHIPPING NOW!!!
Includes unlimited streaming of Abscess Time via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.ships out within 3 daysedition of 125Purchasable with gift card$30 USD or more
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Record/Vinyl + Digital AlbumThe vinyl or cassette version of Abscess Time includes the exclusive bonus track "Eternity" which takes up the entire side D of the second LP. This track is ONLY available on vinyl or cassette and is not currently found on any other formats or downloads it is exclusive to the physical vinyl or cassette only.
SOURCED FROM A DEDICATED VINYL MASTER
2nd Pressing Info:
250 Copies on Random Mixed
All copies are mailed in ultra heavyweight vinyl mailers.
IN STOCK AND SHIPPING NOW!!!
Includes unlimited streaming of Abscess Time via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.ships out within 3 daysPurchasable with gift card$27 USD or more
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The vinyl or cassette version of Abscess Time includes the exclusive bonus track "Eternity" which takes up the entire side D of the second LP. This track is ONLY available on vinyl or cassette and is not currently found on any other formats or downloads it is exclusive to the physical vinyl or cassette only.
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Abscess Time Zip Up Hoodie
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lyrics
The old days look so rich
Resplendent in retrospect
Your milky lenses reflect, refract
Glinting with the sweat of the lean years
When you’re sliced up whip-thin
No more marbled fat, just gristle and fear
You were swollen with moments to lose, when
The digits dialed up their demand: “Choose:”
“Trade time for our tender or fade like a bruise,”
So you fed yourself in, you fed yourself in
And everything’s efficient now
You praise the daily miracles
That tumble from each slice of blue
Light that models, fosters fools
Oh, you know it felt just fine
To live surveilled, revealed inside
Each thought coded and catalogued
To hide nothing, nothing at all
And what a subtle price you paid
Grey flab strip-mined like clay
For canny chips to carve away
And those artfully arbitraged wounds
Seeped spirit into the gloom
Where sieves abide, unseen by your side
Discerning the churning, confined lusts that drive you
And when your flensed focus ran thin
Your shameful suckling began
With thirst unslaked, you’d take and take
The patent cures and devil’s bargains
So in the end, those fatty folds
Weren’t worth so much at all
Just another flipped commodity
One more thing your old self owned
But God, you were so rich
In the head, way back
Not broke, blind, or slack
Like the lean years
Resplendent in retrospect
Your milky lenses reflect, refract
Glinting with the sweat of the lean years
When you’re sliced up whip-thin
No more marbled fat, just gristle and fear
You were swollen with moments to lose, when
The digits dialed up their demand: “Choose:”
“Trade time for our tender or fade like a bruise,”
So you fed yourself in, you fed yourself in
And everything’s efficient now
You praise the daily miracles
That tumble from each slice of blue
Light that models, fosters fools
Oh, you know it felt just fine
To live surveilled, revealed inside
Each thought coded and catalogued
To hide nothing, nothing at all
And what a subtle price you paid
Grey flab strip-mined like clay
For canny chips to carve away
And those artfully arbitraged wounds
Seeped spirit into the gloom
Where sieves abide, unseen by your side
Discerning the churning, confined lusts that drive you
And when your flensed focus ran thin
Your shameful suckling began
With thirst unslaked, you’d take and take
The patent cures and devil’s bargains
So in the end, those fatty folds
Weren’t worth so much at all
Just another flipped commodity
One more thing your old self owned
But God, you were so rich
In the head, way back
Not broke, blind, or slack
Like the lean years
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from Abscess Time,
released June 26, 2020
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Pyrrhon New York, New York
"Outré as they get, everything Pyrrhon do emanates from an obsidian death metal core - just that this music is that much more expressive, its impact that much more disquieting than almost anything else in the genre."
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