San Diego-based power couple Alene and Nestor Padilla-Tiller are back with the next epic chapter of their divine space opera. “Zeroth is about the experience of the will to live and the balance it brings to a hostile universe,” says Nestor. 
 “Set in A.T., 11,322, the Gufking has assimilated all life in order to preserve it: eternal limbo for a species that had found relative eternity. However, without life struggling against nature, nature creeps towards complete balance. As the inevitable heat death of the cosmos inches closer, life, and its manifestations, have to decide whether to live in eternal relativity, allowing the universe to die, or to continue to struggle against the eventuality of death. In short, it’s an exploration of a bound universe whose catalyst for rebirth is life itself.” 
 “The instrumentals, and EP title, are based on the laws of thermonuclear dynamics; the observable, empirical dialect of the universe. The tracks are named after the canonical hours, which dictate when and how to pray. In other words, Zeroth is a breviary for the last ceremony in the eventuality of life.” 
 Fittingly, their music is decidedly dramatic and narrative, as immediate and gripping as the pop and EDM genre-trappings would lead one to expect, meanwhile effortlessly employing all the emotional subtlety, experimental instrumentation, and transporting grandiosity of a masterful film score.