Kayleth Premiere “Delta Pavonis” Video From 2020 Back to Earth
If you were going to come ‘back to Earth’ at any point, 2020 has been a (hopefully) singularly shitty time to do it. Nonetheless, Verona, Italy’s Kayleth issued their third long-player, 2020 Back to Earth, earlier this year through Argonauta Records, and as is their wont, the synth-laced five-piece take straightforward riffing and blast it into decidedly more cosmic reaches, keys and effects creating a palpable swirl in songs like “Lost in the Canyons” and “The Avalanche” later on. That comes coupled with a crunching style of riffery that should hit home with those who’ve seen the desert grow beyond the desert — a full-toned push taking hold from the outset of “Corrupted” and “Concrete,” the album’s clearly-designated-for-punch-and-groove opening pair.
2020 Back on Earth isn’t necessarily new terrain for Kayleth as compared to 2018’s Colossus (review here), but to be perfectly honest, neither does it need to be. The band have already had their approach more or less on lockdown, and 
as they throw in some handclaps amid the synthy spaciousness and careening L-class-planet dune-riding riff of “Lost in the Canyons,” who the hell is going to argue? They know what they’re doing and they’re doing it. That holds true as Kayleth‘s sci-fi flirtations take them into more electronic-sounding fare on “The Dawn of the Resurrection” and “Electron,” and as the more open-vibed, slower-rolling “Sirens” gives way to the last shove of “Cosmic Thunder.” Kayleth are by no means stagnant creatively, but neither are they trying to fix what was by no means broken in their sound their last time out. They’ve already come a long, long way in their 15 years together.
So, while the narrative of their return to the planet is based around human corruption and climate change — because, yeah, well, okay — and of course would’ve been recorded before one might have added an ongoing plague to that already-much-longer-than-I’ve-listed list of reasons one might instead want not to be here, the video for “Delta Pavonis” instead finds the band as portrayed by CGI astronauts blasting off into unknown realms of the multi-dimensional universe. In short, they find themselves on another planet and as Neil Armstrong said when he first stepped on the moon: “Hey everybody, we’re all gonna get laid!” Something like that anyway.
At least somebody gets to become one with the great cosmic ether.
The album is streaming in full at the bottom of this post, and you can see “Delta Pavonis” below, followed by some comment from the band.
Please enjoy:
Kayleth, “Delta Pavonis” official video premiere
Kayleth on “Delta Pavonis”:
Delta Pavonis talks about dualism. Specifically of the division within us. Since childhood we have always been taught to see the world divided between good and evil, me and the world, me and others, me and the universe, me and my soul… everything is separate from us, we can not live things fully. The video shows the astronauts on the road for many years, eventually arrive in an alien planet.
When they meet aliens (something they don’t know) merge with them and become one with the universe.
They are celebrated as heroes on Earth, but they’re actually still alive, somewhere else, united in the depth of existence.
After years of travelling through space looking for new worlds, May 8, 2020 seen Italian stoner rockers Kayleth return to their home planet with the band’s third full-length album, titled “2020 Back to Earth”, via their mothership Argonauta Records. While each of the band’s records tell a story, this time Kayleth found the earth in a disastrous condition, a planet mutilated by its humans. But Kayleth won’t give up. The wish to understand how life works and express it through music is a springboard to change the world with their sound. And this is a heavy dose of the Doom, Psychedelic and Stoner hailing of the realms of Space Rock.
“2020 Back to Earth” is available via Argonauta Records at: www.argonautarecords.com/shop
Kayleth is:
Massimo Dalla Valle: Guitar
Alessandro Zanetti: Bass
Daniele Pedrollo: Drums
Enrico Gastaldo: Vocals
Michele Montanari: Synth
Kayleth, 2020 Back on Earth (2020)
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