ALLMUSIC.COM DECLARES PYRAMIDS/HORSEBACK “A THRONE WITHOUT A KING” THE “FIRST GREAT EXPERIMENTAL ALBUM OF 2012”. SO VERY HONORED.
The mighty Pitchfork reviews the new PYRAMIDS/HORSEBACK “A THRONE WITHOUT A KING” release. The review is a series of amazing one-liners, beginning with the first sentence: “If you thought Pyramids’ rapid-fire style-hopping, from trad doom metal crunch to post-rock’s technical ecstasy, was exhausting on their 2008 debut album, then prepare yourself for an almost hour-long collage that makes their old stuff seem downright uniform.”
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16210-a-throne-without-a-king/
OUT TODAY IN LIMITED CLEAR, SLATE BLUE, AND BLACK.
LP / CD / CASSETTE AVAILABLE. HAPPY HUNTING.
SOME WORDS FROM THE PRESS:
“Truly a seminal work … Pyramids/Horseback’s creation is a near seem-less bonding of crackling, dystopian drone, and the reverb filled, melting-ice yawn of shoegaze.” (9/10) - Foxy Digitalis
“Both artists operate on a completely different level than their peers and are unique and exciting forces in the music world, and this collaboration is as golden as the album art.” - CVLT Nation
“The epic marriage between two of the world’s finest experimental entities … Neither Pyramids nor Horseback can disappoint.” - The Inarguable
”A Throne Without A King is a magnificent record. Not something for the squeamish, not something for the easily amused, but something for those who want to peer into the abyss and have a soundtrack to it.” - Crave Online
“A further abstraction of the more “out there” jazz, along the lines of Albert Ayler and Ornette Coleman (circa Free Jazz), but without any traditional instrumentation.” - Brainwashed
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ROADBURN ALBUM OF THE DAY: PYRAMIDS/HORSEBACK
Lovingly pinched from The Inarguable: So here it is. Don’t lie, you’ve been impatiently waiting for this all year, too. The (what can only be described as) epic marriage between two of the world’s finest experimental entities, namely Chapel Hill, No
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Source roadburn.com
“Pyramids/Horseback’s creation is a near seem-less bonding of crackling, dystopian drone, and the reverb filled, melting-ice yawn of shoegaze.”
Source foxydigitalis.com
HYDRA HEAD has recently put the albums up on Bandcamp.
The long awaited LP + 7” PYRAMIDS/HORSEBACK split + collaboration is now up for preorder at Hydra Head!
If you don’t want to stress out about finding a copy of this later, now is the time to pick up “A THRONE WITHOUT A KING”
D MAGAZINE interviews R. Loren about the Handmade Birds label, and weaves Pyramids, White Moth, Sailors With Wax Wings into the discourse.
Interesting read…
http://frontrow.dmagazine.com/2011/10/interview-r-loren-of-local-label-handmade-birds/
If you have never visited Aaron Turner’s blog Feral Pig, now you have an excuse:
http://aaronbturner.blogspot.com/2011/10/pyramidshorseback-atwk.html
