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Album of the day: Pyramids / Horseback – A Throne Without A King (Split + Collaboration)

Posted on Thursday, December 1st, 2011

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, North Carolina’s blackened psychedelic monster Horseback and obscure Texas acid post-rock entity Pyramids.

After what was initially supposed to be just a 2×7″ split + collaboration, ISIS / House of Low Culture mastermind Aaron Turner and his wife, Mamiffer’s Faith Coloccia, added just enough “awesome” (and enough time to make it an LP + 7″) to make A Throne Without A King one of the most intriguing releases of 2011.

Did I drop enough names to get your attention?

Part I: Horseback/Pyramids Split 7″

Opening with a split between the two artists, a canary yellow 7″ displays both Horseback and Pyramids’s most experimental, bizarre sides yet. A-side monster ‘Thee Cult of Henry Flynt’, named for one of the most pessimistic philosophers to grace this Earth, grips the listener in a vice of screeching, frozen black metal, only to drop him into a vast tundra of, you guessed it, ice and fog.

Though ‘Thee Cult’s’ introduction might elicit comparisons to bands like Krallice, mainman Jenks Miller’s immense creativity still sets aside yet again, making sure to crane necks with each new development. After an initial explosion of caustic, free-drums, Pyramids’s ‘Phaedra’s Love’ descends into a beautiful-yet-offsetting world of bowed glass and chimes, ebbing and flowing between curious dissonance and ethereal, harmonic grace.

Continue reading: The Inarguable: Horseback/Pyramids – “A Throne Without A King” Split + Collaboration (2011) [Hydra Head Records].

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