Grist for romantic misfortune never runs out. New York trio Triathalon — Adam Intrator, Hunter Jayne and Chad Chilton — have been busy at the mill producing 15 ways to leave your lover, or not. All this confusion is semi-whispered as interior dialogue over a mix of slowcore tropicalia and dream-pop sprinkled with the occasional outburst of restrained 1990s indie loud.
The band members, who met at the Savannah College of Art and Design, cite the Pixies and Nirvana as influences on Funeral Music, but it largely sounds more like a murkier albeit funkier kin to Josh Haden’s Spain. Self-aware young fellows mooning over the unbearable weight of being that guy, expressed with requisite spite towards self, other and life, has long been…

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