Food Pyramid

Further down the highway from last year's ace split with Roy Orb D.MT., Food Pyramid reach for lush neo Krautrock heights on 'Ecstasy & Refreshment'. They first break orbit with 'Dexedream''s stellar trajectory powered by twin-panned guitars and rocking rhythm machines to zones of swirling vocals, plateauing at the dreamy psych-house plains of 'Pacifier' and spinning dubwise with the corkscrewing, Ekoplekz-meets-Sun Araw-like scramble of Deep Fantasy'. Up there, the chiming African guitar chops and fuzzy organ of 'The High Life' feel positively light-headed and sublimely groovesome, contrasting with the scratchy motorik freak funk of 'Maya Control' before the trip turns upwards again with the aerial chug of 'GmbH' and they oscillate back to the fractal displacements of 'Third Wave' and the gently cooled, fluttering descent of 'Marsh Bar.