DEATH VALLEY GIRLS - DARKNESS RAINS (WHITE VINYL)
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: 01. MORE DEAD 02. (ONE LESS THING) BEFORE I DIE
03. DISASTER (IS WHAT WE'RE AFTER) 04. UNZIP YOUR FOREHEAD 05. WEAR
BLACK 06. ABRE CAMINO 07. BORN AGAIN AND AGAIN 08. STREET JUSTICE
09. OCCUPATION: GHOST WRITER 10. TV IN JAIL ON MARS
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