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! ;)
DOOOOOOOM.
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ReplyDeleteyes yes, i am, just a little too busy to come up with nice reviews..
Deletei could just put up a shitload of music, but i kind of dislike the idea of not telling anything about it.
what do you think about it?
Danke Schön, love me some Nadja, hadn't checked out this collab before, it's pretty great.
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Deletei'm indeed alive, but kept busy at the moment.
working on my own release, booking stuff and shit.
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cool review !
ReplyDeleteLegendary blog. It's nice to see some quality control à la HFS 40K. It's rare these days.
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