PYRAMID (CLEAR VINYL)

Jaga Jazzist return with their new album ˜Pyramid™ on 07 August 2020, where the legendary Norwegian eight-piece takes a deep dive into post-rock, jazz and psychedelia influences. It™s their first album since 2015™s ˜Starfire™, their ninth album in a career now spanning four decades, but it marks the group™s debut on Brainfeeder, the LA-based imprint curated by Flying Lotus. On ˜Pyramid™, Jaga Jazzist have crafted a suitably cosmic sound to match their new label home, all the while nodding to forebears spanning from 80s jazz band Out To Lunch and Norwegian synth guru Ståle Storl¢kken, to contemporaries Tame Impala, Todd Terje and Jon Hopkins. Each of the album™s four longform entries evolves over carefully plotted movements, the tracks™ technicolour threads dreamily unspooling. Whilst they wouldn™t describe ˜Pyramid™ as a concept album, the band see the track titles as a conceptual starting point from which the listener can construct whatever story flows out of the songs. The album title refers to the building blocks which make up a pyramid, and how each of the four tracks  and their constituent parts  fit together. ˜Tomita™ is a nod to Japanese composer and synth player Isao Tomita, and ˜The Shrine™ alludes to Fela Kuti™s legendary Lagos venue. Lars says: šI felt that this album is a small symphony, each part containing its own rooms to explore.›