DEATH VALLEY GIRLS - DARKNESS RAINS(TRANSLUCENT RED W. BLACK SPLATTER VINYL)

At the core of Death Valley Girls, vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Bonnie Bloomgarden and guitarist Larry Schemel channel a modern spin on Fun House’s sonic exorcisms, ZZ Top’s desert-blasted riffage, and Sabbath’s occult menace. On their third albumDarkness Rains, Death Valley Girls churn out the hyper charged 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 Bloomgarden’s proclamation that you’re “more dead than alive.” The pace builds with “(One Less Thing) Before I Die”, a distillate of Detroit’s proto-punk sound. At track three, Death Valley Girls hit their stride with“Disaster (Is What We’re After)”, a rager that takes the most boisterous moments off Exile On Main Street and injects it with Zeppelin’s devil’s-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”.

    
1.
More Dead 02:35
2.
(One Less Thing) Before I Die 01:36
3.
Disaster (Is What We're After) 03:37
4.
Unzip Your Forehead 03:44
5.
Wear Black 03:02
6.
Abre Camino 04:42
7.
Born Again and Again 03:47
8.
Street Justice 02:40
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Occupation: Ghost Writer 03:20
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TV in Jail On Mars 05:47