Best Local Songwriter
Ben Best, Pyramid
Best forms one half of the talented songwriting duo in experimental rockers Pyramid along with Joey Stephens though its probably more accurate to say hes one-eighth of the songwriting octet. But its a damn fine fraction, whatever it is. Bests songs simmer with haunting intensity until they erupt like summer storms, perfect audio settings for imagery-rich narratives whose tension-and-release is just as deliciously unsettling.