From Poe in the past to Robots in the future, the next step appeared logically to Eric to step further into the past and the Pyramid album followed. Inspired in part by the fad at the time in the quasi-magical mystical properties of Pyramid shapes, which Eric sent up particularly in the song 'Pyramania'. Eric recalls a rumor at the time that the Russian army in the field used to keep their razor blades in a pyramid shaped box to keep them sharp and other such tall tales. Eric, like his hero Sigmund Freud found Egyptology fascinating.

Again as a child in Glasgow, the art galleries there hosted a great collection of Egyptian artifacts, mummies etc which had made a profound impression on Eric.

As a tribute to his brother Richard, who had recently been awarded a PHd, Eric named one of the instrumental tracks after his brother's thesis which was a mathematical treatise 'Hyper-Gamma-Spaces.

Shadow of a Lonely Man was inspired by the death of Eric's father-in-law while the album was being recorded.