Kyle Loffredo
July 14, 2025
Kyle Loffredo
Kyle Loffredo of Lesotho describes the creative process, sludge, new album, and crazy telepathic poetic connections with his wife.
The band will preview their forthcoming album A Flashing on Plain Glass at Somergloom.
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Hump Day News: Alright, I'm here with Kyle Loffredo. He's the guitarist with Lesotho. They're a Boston based, heavy instrumental post-everything outfit, so that's “post” a lot of things, and we're here to talk a little bit about the band and about their upcoming S0mergloom appearance, which would be on Thursday, August 7th at Deep Cuts. Welcome, Kyle.
Kyle Loffredo: Hey, thanks for having me, Mike. Appreciate it.
(L to R): Dan DeLucia, Cliff Cazeau, Kyle Loffredo
Hump Day News: So I wanted to talk about the Somergloom appearance, but let me put that off for the moment, and back up a little, and maybe talk about some of the band’s music, maybe their last LP Through the Dying Light.
Kyle Loffredo: Yeah.
Hump Day News: Now I was listening to that yesterday and today. Sure enough, it is mostly instrumental. I get a lot of post-rock feel to it. Another band I really like Caspian. I hear a lot of kinship between that kind of sound. Tell me about the making of the album a little bit. How did that come together and how did that find its way to the studio?
Kyle Loffredo: Yeah, so we recorded that at The Bridge Sound & Stage in Somerville. And yeah, we're like essentially a “post” outfit, like a post-rock, post-metal…. We've been dabbling in, you know, all sorts of influences from around that genre. So I think it's pretty fair to just call this “post-everything” and we can do whatever we want.
I think Through the Dying Light was our first – is our first – full-length [album], and before that we did Summer Wars, which was an EP, and that sort of was touching into the post-rock, post-metal territory – and a bit of sludge in there too. I think a lot of sludge influence happened on there, especially on that first EP.
Hump Day News: Can you highlight what are the features of the music that would warrant [the description] “a little bit of sludge”?
Kyle Loffredo: Yeah, I think it's like the sort of “wall of sound” kind of ideas. So we have a few parts like in “Altar Fire” or “Plusone/Timestwo,” which is the opening track on that EP. That is very sludgy. The sound had a lot of distortion, and we played a lot with distortion throughout those two albums. And it was a lot of experimenting, trying to find [ourselves], find our sound. And I think we started to really nail on that in the the previous LP Through the Dying Light.
We're actually gearing up to record at the same spot (The Bridge & Sound Stage) a new album. It's going to be five songs, sort of in the same territory.
Hump Day News: What's the release date on that?
Kyle Loffredo: We are going in to record it next Saturday. So it’s actually coming up, that stuff.
Hump Day News: Very cool.
Kyle Loffredo: So we just finished writing, and I feel really good about this one. I feel like our sound is, like, fully encapsulated and solidified. And with our new drummer, transitioning to Dan Delucia, I think he took a lot of his influences and brought it into the picture, which helped us. And his voice, especially, helped connect a lot of the different ideas and thoughts and feelings that we wanted to convey in this album. So he was really, really a great addition, and it was a good transition moving right into writing.
[Ed.: above, Dan Delucia playing beer kegs.]
Hump Day News: Nice. Just to list out the band members that people will see at Somergloom. So Kyle, you're on guitars. Dan Delucia is a new drummer. And Cliff Cazeau on bass.
Kyle Loffredo: That's correct. Yep. That's the three-piece. Yep.
Hump Day News: Alright, so if you, if you're about to record it, you guys must have these songs pretty much down. Can people expect to hear any previews of the new album at the Somergloom?
Kyle Loffredo: Oh, hell yeah. So we're excited to play. I mean, we're going to be, we're going to be ready to RIP after recording these five songs in the studio. So it's, like, right up to the date. So we have two weekend bookings in the studio, and then we'll be right into Somergloom. We'll be ready to absolutely rip through, at least, most of the album for this show.
I think we're just going to focus on playing it through, and maybe we'll throw in an old one from Through the Dying Light. I think we'll be pretty well versed and give everybody a taste. We already have, a few times, played out a few of the songs, and the reception has been really great and it's been super fun to play them, yeah.
Hump Day News: Nice. Does the album have a name yet, or is it still…?
Kyle Loffredo: Yeah, I can. I can give you the name. It's called A Flashing on Plain Glass.
Hump Day News: A Flashing on Plain Glass.
Kyle Loffredo: Yeah, that's correct. Yeah.
Hump Day News: Alright, it sounds mysterious.
Kyle Loffredo: Cool. Yeah, absolutely. It's definitely mysterious…
Hump Day News: Which I kind of noticed with the song title from the last album Through the Dying Light. Can I back up to that album one more time?
Kyle Loffredo: Yeah.
Hump Day News: Because I was wondering about, like, what the creative process is for a band that is mostly instrumental. Now I noticed there was at least one song on Through the Dying Light that had lyrics. It was “Floater” and it sounded like you had a guest vocalist, Molly Grace Chandler…
Kyle Loffredo: Yeah, that's actually my wife. Yeah, he's a professional poet. She's very talented. So we worked her into the fold. And yeah, the poem, that's a poem that she wrote…
Hump Day News: Now what I noticed about the poem (I've got the text in front of me), it includes keywords and and some phrases that also find their way into the song titles. So I guess my question was, like, what was the order of operations in planning that in writing and creating that music? I mean, did the poem come first or after?
Kyle Loffredo: Yeah, I had heard the poem and, originally, funny enough, a lot of the song names were down, and I think “One Wolf Watches” was part of that poem directly, that we took and named that track after that poem of hers.
But what I didn't intend to happen was, you know, she uses the word ‘flicker’ in the poem. And we had already had that song [“Flicker,” off Through a Dying Light] established. So it felt really nice, all of a sudden we get in there, realizing the depth of the meaning of the poem and hearing it in context. It was really great.
Hump Day News: Well, that's a crazy coincidence.
Kyle Loffredo: It was crazy. Yeah, yeah.
Hump Day News: I noticed “Floater” was also [both a song title and mentioned in the poem]...
Kyle Loffredo: Yeah, that was a coincidence. Yeah. Believe it or not, I didn't know that those two words were in the poem.
Hump Day News: Well, go figure.
Kyle Loffredo: Yeah, it was really cool.
Hump Day News: Does Molly Grace Chandler get in on the act for the new EP?
Kyle Loffredo: I don't know. We haven't talked about it yet. I think we were just planning on doing that one [song].
I think the vocal thing is really touch & go for us. You know, we really want to use it in some places, but, obviously remain a complete instrumental act. So it might not be in the cards for this time around, especially because the tight five song thing that we're doing is already really solidified.
There's not a whole lot of, like, transitional tracks in this one or anything like that, or ambient tracks. This one's much more “nose to the grindstone” kind of thing and sort of paves the road for itself. I think it's already written.
Hump Day News: Nice. I'm looking forward to hearing it at Deep Cuts. Let's transition to Somergloom a little bit because Lesotho… am I pronouncing that right, Lesotho?
Kyle Loffredo: Yeah, you got it.
Hump Day News: You guys played the second Somergloom. That was in 2022 at Boynton Yards. Can you tell me a bit about that experience? What do you remember? What sticks with you?
The Gargoyle, unofficial mascot of Somergloom (2022)
Kyle Loffredo: Yeah, with Junius. Oh man, it was great. I think one of the hardships I had during that show, which I didn't see coming at all, was the fact that we were playing outside in a really cool space, but it was still outside. And it was during the day.
I don't know if you've ever, you know, dabbled with effects pedals and stuff like that. But when you get up there and you shine like daylight, you know, you can't see the lights, whether they're on or off. I was just, like, totally riding blind that whole time, which was crazy. So it was kind of a whirlwind of an event for us.
But we got on, we played, we watched some amazing acts. I think there is Ashen Veil. There was Dreamwell, which is a post-hardcore act out of Rhode Island, and that was the first time hearing them. And they played around the dusk time and they were really awesome. And then Junius, of course, was killer during that event. We love what Somergloom does. Ijust hope they continue to grow and do more. Yeah, we love them.
Cliff Cazeau at Somergloom 2022 (📷: Ben Stas @noisefloorphoto)
Hump Day News: Yeah, for sure. And what I've noticed about Somergloom is, you know, there are some recurring artists that have been there over the years like Kira McSpice has been in – or was supposed to have been in – four of them. So 2021 through 2024… although you mentioned Ashen Veil, she was supposed to play with the band [in 2022].
We learned during an interview – and I thought this was the case – that Ashen Veil got COVID for that one. So they were out for [2022]. But in any case, a lot of artists were returning and coming back again. So it's kind of cool. We kind of get to check in with bands over the years that you might have seen at earlier Somerglooms.
Beyond the new album, what are some of the stuff that Lesotho learned along the way that people seeing them in 2022 might be surprised with, or might be unexpected for them, in 2025?
Kyle Loffredo: Yeah, that's a good question. I think just overall we've grown as songwriters and a lot of the original stuff that we wrote was created in this live setting, and, you know, I have a guitar part or I have an idea, and we'll flesh it out and sort of see where it goes from there. Like in real time.
A lot of what I was doing [in writing the new album], especially with the transition to the new drummer and stuff like that, was trying to get a more holistic view of what the entire song was and what I wanted to do. So a lot of it was demoed out, guitar-wise and drums. I would do a shitty take on the drums and, you know, get the holistic overview of what the song would be and send it to the guys, and then we'd sort of workshop it in real time.
So it was much more of a direct, concise, surgical way of writing an album this time around. And I think we were just more confident in our songwriting, better songwriters, and we're able to tap into the emotions of what we want to do a little bit more. Yeah, so I think that's a long and short, yeah.
Hump Day News: Nice. So we'll look forward to a new and even more improved Lesotho at Deep Cuts on Thursday, August 7th. That's the first night of Somergloom.
Thank you so much Kyle, for joining Hump Day News and hope to see you at the show.
Kyle Loffredo: Great, awesome. Thanks for having me, man. Appreciate it.
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