Parsons and Woolfson, without going completely into repeating the previous formula, here manage to reaffirm and solidify their genuine proposal: sophisticated and elegant music, endowed with enough ingenuity in arrangements that, without really departing from conventional melodic patterns, create an air of good careful delicacy.
The repertoire of "Pyramid" flows naturally continuously, despite the fact that there is no strict link in the lyrical sense between the songs: 'Voyager' starts the album in the manner of a pompous reflective prelude, then gives rise to 'What goes up ... 'a meditation on the futility of earthly things, to then conclude with' The eagle will rise again ', a beautiful melancholic song to power that has the motivation to resurface, very much in a Renaissance tone,' One more river 'repeats the idea of resurgence, this time with a more frontal affirmation, in a pop-rock key with slight R'n'B colors. But before the positive side of things takes ideological hold on the matter, comes 'Can't Take It With You', as a counterpart; here comes the idea of futility,
Side B of the vinyl began with the powerful instrumental 'In the lap of the gods', one of the most ambitious and bombastic compositions of the project. With the last echoes of the metals and the eardrums, almost immediately a stroke of the gong begins 'Pyramania', a frivolous and fun theme that works as a suitable contrast resource against the majestic sound display of the previous theme, next is 'Hyper-gamma-spaces' that continues the logic of working with multiple records within the confines of a single album: to finish the beautiful ballad 'Shadow of a lonely man'.
"Pyramid" is indispensable as a recommendation in any large progressive collection.
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