New Maserati Record Set for Nov.

Features the final recordings of late drummer Jerry Fuchs.

By Blurt Staff

The new Maserati record, Pyramid of the Sun, is due November 9 on Temporary Residence. It's the first release from the band since the tragic death of drummer Jerry Fuchs last year - the band temporarily ceased operations in the wake of Fuchs' passing but eventually got back to work on the album, which features Fuchs' presense on several tracks.

Mixed with Justin Van Der Volgen (!!!, Out Hud) and Temporary Residence founder Jeremy deVine (Sonna), Pyramid includes two collaborations with friend and tourmate Steve Moore (Zombi) in the form of the Cluster-meets-Jan Hammer scorcher "They'll No More Suffer From Thirst" and the synth-heavy dance epic "Oaxaca." Closing the album is the bittersweet "Bye M'Friend, Goodbye," a motorik summer punk jam that splits the difference between Wipers and Neu! and carries the bittersweet distinction of being one of the band's finest songs, and the final track written and recorded with Fuchs.

The label says it best: "Formed at the edge of the new millennium, Maserati is as sleek, sexy and sophisticated as the legendary Italian sports car it takes its name from. It is fitting, then, that the band has dragged the glory years of psychedelic arena rock kicking and screaming into the 21st Century, with the pomposity (and vocals) carefully removed. In its place are white hot flashes of light pulsing to an unstoppable rhythm that makes us want to punch air and drive really fast in a car with wings instead of doors."

Well, all right then!