2LP - Gatefold Sleeve - Etching on Side D.
Pyramids with Nadja is a massive collaborative effort between Pyramids, Nadja and a number of otherwise established musicians. The instrumentation on this record might be described as an energized ambient, infused with an intelligent ear for avant-garde metal and an almost indiscernible adherence to a sort of pop sensibility. PwN successfully melds the still unparalleled compositional methodology developed in Pyramids' "s/t" album with Nadja's trademarked dirge-like shoegaze. All members of Pyramids (f. coloccia, m. dean, m. kraig, r. loren, d. william) and Nadja (Aidan Baker & Leah Buckereff) perform on all four tracks on the record.
Pyramids with Nadja also features: Simon Raymonde of Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil (performs bass on track one and four), Albin Julius of Der Blutharsch (performs vocals on track four), Chris Simpson of Mineral (performs vocals on track two), Colin Marston of Dysrhythmia and Behold the Arctopus (co-produced/engineered track one) and James Plotkin of Khanate, Khlyst, O.L.D. Phantomsmasher (mixed and mastered the entire album).
"So much of so-called "metalgaze" or modern shoegaze is really new-age music with distortion. Introduction of clearly defined dynamics is almost revolutionary-- until one remembers that the best of the original 90s shoegaze bands still wrote proper, robust songs."
Pitchfork - https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13669-pyramids-with-nadja/
"the infinitely expansive sound of the universe being swallowed whole. The melodies crackle out of Nadja’s trademark distortion as the whole piece riles itself up into a hurricane, numbing your senses and only really sinking in once it dies down, leaving the last of the tinnitus-induced ring to drip out of your ears."
ATTN Magazine - https://www.attnmagazine.co.uk/pyramids-with-nadja-st/
"[T]his incredible, coherent hour of music that isn’t just the best collaborative sort-of post-rock album since MONO & world’s end girlfriend’s quite frankly still-astonishing Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain, it’s the best record in the genre since then period, and sometimes it sounds a bit like the Deftones’ recent work slowed way down and made even dreamier (especially when Mineral’s Chris Simpson is singing), and on one track I think they stole that guy in a coffin from the end of Sunn O)))’s Black One and waited until he calmed down a bit before taping him."
Pop Matters - https://www.popmatters.com/125977-pyramids-with-nadja-pyramids-with-nadja-2496189725.html
"The atmospheric qualities of the tracks are quite excellent with solid dynamic manipulation, allowing for some rather affecting moments...Cascading and competing sheets of white noise and other sounds imbue the tracks with a sense of space without being harsh while the intermittent vocals and piano accompaniment give the record a real depth."
Scene Point Blank - https://www.scenepointblank.com/reviews/pyramids-with-nadja/pyramids-with-nadja/