PYRAMIDS
S/T
(Hydra Head)

FARFLUNG
A Wound in Eternity
(MeteorCity)

GOZU
S/T
(Self-Released)

LITMUS
Planetfall
(Rise Above)

ANOTHER KIND OF
DEATH
Sleepless Every Night
(Underhill)

EAK/CRUSHING SUN
Bipolar 

(Major Label Industries)

TETSUO
David Keenan is My Dick 

(At War With False Noise)

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Once again let the weirdness walk in. As time goes on and technology becomes more accessible, it is only going to get easier for ordinary folks to get weirder. Weirder than what? You might ask. Or if you are more of the thinking type and fancy yourself a deep one you might ask me to describe ‘depth’ for you. My answer wouldn’t be nice. I’d probably just suggest you look into your carrot hole and conform. The point is, with music like with any other art form, the matter in question is subjective. And nowhere more than ever, than when dealing with a band as textured, dreamy and obscenely, yet subliminally heavy as Texas’ Pyramids.  Why subjective? Because you can’t ask the ordinary folk to qualify this music as precious. Or even worthy. For most, it’s just going to sound like random work, produced in a haste at night. Cut and paste quickies that over stay their welcome for as long as they last.

But for bold music fans unafraid of hearing damage; let the weirdness enter! This self-titled release is quite precious. And you don’t need to be a genius to notice it.  Post rock fans that like the more abstract stuff will eat this like pills at a rave. It’s a sensible work, translucent from beginning to end. It fluctuates between adventurous aural landscapes, post new age vocals (think of the hideous spawn between Enya and Mike Patton), and a drum machine set to random beats. Occasionally, this machine gets possessed by the devil and takes the music’s soul with it during its night ramblings. Hence, the craziness and culmination of sound that is “Hillary”. Nightmarish to the point of excess, this track represents the most extreme side of Pyramids. One that resembles Godflesh without the rumbling notes. The rest, is pure bliss.  

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