Death Valley Girls – Darkness Rains LP

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At the core of Death Valley Girls, vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Bonnie Bloomgarden and guitarist Larry Schemel channel a modern spin on Fun Houses sonic exorcisms, ZZ Tops desert-blasted riffage, and Sabbaths occult menace. On their third album Darkness Rains, Death Valley Girls churn out the hypercharged scuzzy rock every generation yearns for, but there is a more subversive force percolating beneath the surface that imbues the band with an exhilarating cosmic energy.

Album opener More Dead is a rousing wake up call, with a hypnotic guitar riff and an intoxicating blown-out solo underscoring Bloomgardens proclamation that youre more dead than alive. The pace builds with (One Less Thing) Before I Die, a distillate of Detroits proto-punk sound. At track three, Death Valley Girls hit their stride with Disaster (Is What Were After), a rager that takes the most boisterous moments off Exile On Main Street and injects it with Zeppelins devils-note blues. Darkness Rains retains its intoxicating convocations across ten tracks, climaxing with the hypnotic guitar drones and cult-like chants of TV In Jail On Mars.

Darkness Rains by Death Valley Girls