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THE REVIEW
“I am alone on the edge of the world. No one reaches out to me. Sitting alone, bathed in rays. Some things are just like this and my mind can breathe. The wait is hard, I surrender to the sun, hands in the sand. The sour earth purifies me, but the world never arrives.” Space Cadet.
Reviewing this album is like trying to give an opinion on an emotion. For some, music is just music, but there are some compositions that cannot be reduced to entertainment, and Welcome to Sky Valley is the synthesis of dreamlike emotions, tinged with the blues, the kind of blues born from men who had demons inside them, who struggle with their own hearts, to express what we feel, to express what we experience on this planet called Earth, among desert valleys and skies, natural contrasts that we also live as metaphors in our cities, in our homes and lives. Kyuss, with their valve distortions, musically well-influenced by the 70s, with a gaze towards the future, have immortalized a journey sometimes hallucinatory, sometimes fast and unhinged, sometimes romantic and suggestive, a journey that each of us lives sooner or later.
We don’t need the history and hearsay that surround Kyuss and the new survivors, what remains is the music, the intention, and in Welcome to Sky Valley there is plenty of it. The beauty of this album also lies in the fact that it traverses various moments, from the suffocating and sound-filled opening of Gardenia, to the acoustic Space Cadet, up to the gripping riff of Whitewater. You just need to listen to the album and let yourself go…
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Welcome to Sky Valley by Kyuss transcends typical music, offering a deeply emotional and dreamlike journey. Influenced by 70s blues and desert landscapes, the album combines hallucinatory, romantic, and powerful moments. The reviewer emphasizes the album's lasting musical intention and varied dynamics from acoustic serenity to intense riffs.
Kyuss
Kyuss were an American rock band from the Palm Desert, California scene, widely associated with (and often credited in reviews as inventors of) stoner/desert rock. Their classic run includes Blues for the Red Sun and Welcome to Sky Valley, and members went on to projects such as Queens of the Stone Age.14 Reviews
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By il trucido
Welcome To Sky Valley hypnotizes you, 'mescalinizes' you, pervades you, it 'gets inside you', truly.
If someone says that this album is bad, that person is automatically an idiot, even if it’s Riccardo Muti.
By rdegioann452
I simply invite anyone who hasn’t done so yet to listen to this album and do the same with the rest of their discography.
'Sky Valley' is the best among their albums, including 'Blues for the Red Sun', simply because you won’t find songs like 'Gardenia', 'Asteroid' and 'Odyssey' in the latter.
