Pyramid - Elements Series, part 2

Following the successful conversion of heathens on The Preacher from ElementsSeries Part 1, the Pyramid three pack '80s heat with Stereo:Type’s Screwface on Turn It Up, pulling into view with curvy synth streaks that have penis extension of a sports car on a mission to impress foxy pedestrians written all over them. Too many auto analogies? Well there’s also what sounds like an F1 tyre-changing wrench in there too. Wind in its hair, electro twizzles make pretty Turtle Waxed patterns around the vocals of Miss Trouble and voice-box beamed from the future. Beamed into the '80s mind you, meaning it’s not exactly on sliced bread terms of newness, and the same generally goes for the rest of its gleaming perkiness. A big rusher, but one that isn’t breaking the pack of big rushers from the year past.

Opening with cold, stark chords, like the padlock to the gates of hell has just become loosened, and featuring a dialling tone that ominously goes unanswered, Pyramid go on a seek and destroy exercise with Redial. Built around brutally high-end, blade-waving stop-starts, the samurai sword getting more rhythmic to spare those who’ve been dumped on their backside by the rubber-wristed brandishing of a killer sanding disc, it’s a dubstep mindset – the trebly singes - in a breaks body – the pump of the beats and the need for the synths to start hopping around in an orderly manner. As with Part 1, there’s a bettering here of an average companion.