Now, several years since its initial release, Pyramids first collection of songs resounds like a communique from a far off galaxy. The resultant impressions sound like cut up feverdream tape loops containing snippets of Xasthur, Tangerine Dream and Mazzy Star layered over, under and through each other. The aural pictures are at once terrifying and soothing, familiar and wholly alien. What seems like it shouldn"t does in fact work: black metal blasting stitched together with patches of gauzy melody and angelic warbling. It"s one of the most enveloping and simultaneously disorienting documents to have emerged from the hazy outer territories of the heavy music underground in years.