Kayleth - 2020 Back to Earth (New Full Album) After years of traveling through space looking for new worlds, on May 8th Italian stoner rockers Kayleth returned to their home planet with the hotly anticipated release of their 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 find 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.
Opener Corrupted swoops with sci-fi electronic, a robotic voice instructing “Let’s rock!” before big crunchy riffs open the throttle into an easy stoner drive. Dazzling, effects drenched solos launch as swinging bass and drum rhythms try to keep things grounded, forcing winding left and right turns of clattering, carefree rock’n’roll. Concrete‘s descending drums and fat chords live up to the title, scuzzy bass grooves and a spattering of prog easing things into a breathless, racing drive.
Lost In The Canyons stabs with heavy bass and stomping grooves before giving way to dizzying fretwork. Just when the track seems like a stoner rock checkbox exercise, bombastic sax work breathes welcome new life. The Dawn Of Resurrection slowly builds to a zenith of more spaced out soloing, Delta Pavonis flattening out as the desert landscape stretches out, buoyed by dunes of low down boogie and grumbling bass.
By Your Side bounces around before settling into another cruise around a focal point of snare. Electron pulses and throbs with gristly, droning synths before loping along with a swinging riff. The Avalanche pulses with kicks and B-movie sound effects, closing on a lumbering riff. Sirens is all moody bass and breathy vocals, creeping guitars whining away over distant toms that beat slowly and deliberately. It’s the most foreboding and minor-key track on the record, sticking out because of it. Closer Cosmic Thunder morphs from a buzzsaw synth wave into rhythmic grooves, a foot-stomper throughout, nailing the requisite good-time stoner rock vibes and running with them to a climactic end.
