Monday, 8 October 2007The pyramids - Hunch your body on Domino records The Pyramids Hunch Your Body, Love Somebody / Bucko Domino records Release: Oct 8, 2007 What makes something psych? To me it's based in that fuzz, kind of warm sounding distortion, with the treble turned all the way down. It's buzzing, sustained guitar sound... maybe looped with some reverb added. Whether it's 13th Floor Elevators or Dead Meadow it all seems to be headed towards an inevitable fog of noise every instrument is fed through. For myself I trace it back to early Jesus and Mary Chain and hearing barbed wire kisses for the first time. There were barely recognizable vocals over layers and layers of guitar, coming from inside the biggest cave ever recorded. I couldn't believe someone was really taking sound to that extreme limit. It changed the possibilities for my feeble high school mind...unfortunately they never got that back, but it was groundbreaking. Like listening to a live show from beyond the fence, could be recorded and released as an album. You could even make a case for an offshoot psych manifesting as early 90's shoegaze, slowing everything down by half and forgetting the solos. The Pyramids are a side project of the Archie Bronson Outfit, consisting of the ABO's lead singer and guitarist, and they are very much leaning from the folksy-psych side of ABO to the super-psych side of bands like the Wooden shjips. The thing with the pyramids that steer them away from traditional psych is lead singer Sam's yelling vocals which are something akin to the Makeup. 'Hunch you body...' was recorded, along with the rest of the album in less than a week, and it's probably the best thing for it, it sounds loose, a little unrehearsed. This could easily have been overproduced, but it's sticking to the garage and unfortunately they intend to stay there, probably not touring with this material according to their Drowned in Sound interview. It's too bad, because this sounds like it could really shine live, dominating the crappy 60's tribute sounding wastes of 7"'s that are pressed daily. Plus I really want a pyramid shaped 7" (of course), that's the best part. Jason Dean Labels: archie bronson outfit, distortion, fuzz, hunch somebody, psych, shoegaze, the makeup, the pyramids
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