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DEATH VALLEY GIRLS

DARKNESS RAINS (SUICIDE SQUEEZE)

DEATH VALLEY GIRLS - DARKNESS RAINS 128492
format:
1 CD
release:
05.10.2018
label:
SUICIDE SQUEEZE
item ID:
128492
barcode:
0803238016429
At the core of Death Valley Girls, vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Bonnie Bloomgarden and guitarist Larry Schemel channel a modern spin on Funhouse's sonic exorcisms, ZZ Top's desert-blasted riffage, and Sabbath's 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 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."
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. MORE DEAD
  • 1.2. (ONE LESS THING) BEFORE I DIE
  • 1.3. DISASTER (IS WHAT WE'RE AFTER)
  • 1.4. UNZIP YOUR FOREHEAD
  • 1.5. WEAR BLACK
  • 1.6. ABRE CAMINO
  • 1.7. BORN AGAIN AND AGAIN
  • 1.8. STREET JUSTICE
  • 1.9. OCCUPATION: GHOST WRITER
  • 1.10. TV IN JAIL ON MARS