Death Valley Girls
Islands In The Sky
For the better part of a decade, Los Angeles' scrappy rock'n'roll mystics Death Valley Girls have used their music as a means of tapping into a communal cosmic energy. On previous albums, the band challenged the soul-crushing banality of modern society and celebrated "true magical innite potential" through a collage of scorching proto-punk riffs, earworm melodies, far-out lyrics, and lysergic auxiliary instrumentation. But on their album 'Islands In The Sky', Death Valley Girls' songwriting mastermind Bonnie Bloomgarden uses the band's anthemic revelries as a guidebook to spiritual healing and a roadmap for future incarnations of the self. And while these may be the loftiest aims of Death Valley Girls to date, the resulting music is also by far their most infectious and celebratory. Limited coloured vinyl.