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Mysteriously constructed, indeed.
Pyramids - PyramidsPosted by Jennifer Grathwol on 27-Aug-08 @ 01:44 PM
[3.5/5]At their most ethereal (like the opening song, "Sleds"), Pyramids sound like a gloomier Sigur Rós, with high-pitched sighs floating over swirling, shoegazing guitars. Their most confrontational moments, such as the cacophonous closer "1,2,3," combine haunted-carnival keyboards and industrial clamor. For most of their debut album, the Denton, Texas-based band overlap these extreme approaches, burying melodic-yet-inscrutable vocals and black-metal drumbeats under waves of feedback, ghostly, Gregorian echoes and fuzzy noise. Guitar shards sporadically pierce through the cloudy din, twinkle briefly and vanish back into the haze. Pyramids can sound like several songs playing at once, a psychedelic instrumental played backward, or the muffled recording of a session two rooms away. Some tracks, such as the dense glitch-and-guitars maze "End Resolve," unravel intriguingly under headphone scrutiny; others feel thin despite the sonic layers, like throwaway interludes that aren't worth decrypting. (HYDRA HEAD) Andrew Miller  Official Website: http://www.hydrahead.com
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