New York-based trio Triathlon — Adam Intrator, Chad Chilton and Hunter Jayne — will be releasing their fifth album, Funeral Music on May 16, 2025 through Lex Records.
The album began taking shape when the band imagined what they’d like played during their memorial services. Continuously referencing “play this at my funeral” throughout writing and recording, the album quickly became a realization of the memorial service concept. The album’s material is inspired by a period of heartbreak, growing pains and self-discovery, and showcases a darker, more vulnerable side of the band.
With a more minimal approach, every element with the album’s material is highlighted, including cleaner guitar tones, live-tracked drums and first take vocals mixed with singular piano playing and experimental production. And as a result, the album not only depicts the band’s sonic shift, but also sees them reinventing the overall dynamics between their sound, energy and workflow.
The album’s songs were written, demoed, recorded and mixed in various bedrooms, studios and houses over the past couple of years, and the band believes that Funeral Music may arguably be their strongest and most cohesive to date.
Funeral Music‘s first single, “RIP” is slow-burning, grungy dirge with rousingly anthemic hooks that seems sonically indebted to 90s and 00s alternative rock — in particular Deftones and the like comes to mind. The band’s Adam Intrator says ““The aim for ‘RIP’ was to kick start feelings on what it felt like to listen to a late 90s rock song for the first time as a kid in your parents car in the backseat and asking to hear it louder. ‘RIP’ has a double meaning; it’s about both dying and being reborn.”
Directed by Haoyan of America, the accompanying video for “RIP” is a slow-burning and moody fever dream featuring cover negative shot-footage and some truly trippy sequences.
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