Artist: Pyramids with Nadja
Album: Self-titled
Quality: Lossless FLAC
Released: 27 Oct 2009
Genre: Drone, Doom, Ethereal, Shoegaze, Ambient
Label: Hydra Head Records
Size: 309 MB
This is just plain awesome...
Producing machines Nadja have really benefited from their work with Pyramids.
This is a lot more shoegazy than most of their material, that usually features down-tuned guitars and a drummachine in very low tempo - just as the tag "drone" would suggest, if you feel like using one.
The most obvious difference is the following though:
You'll find echoing, Thom Yorkesque vocals, that made me think of Slowdive's Albatross, floating like haze amidst endless outburst of heavy, distorted walls; uptempo beats and somewhat of a structure to a larger extent throughout the record.
Especially the last piece, "An Angel Was Heard to Cry Over the City of Rome" has a surprisingly driving beat, basically blast beats as we know them from black metal compositions.
This piece also features spoken, distorted words - Nadja going transcendental metal! ;)
