Death Valley Girls‘ new record, Welcome to Earth, emerged from a formative moment of loss and tragedy. A devastating Los Angeles wildfire precipitated a period of turmoil for singer Bonnie Bloomgarden. The album is out this Friday, October 9, 2026 via Suicide Squeeze Records. Today, the Southern California band shares the final single “How Losing Everything in the Fire Taught Me to Love Myself,” which confronts terror, trauma, and forward motion. The fuzzy, psychedelic instrumental builds to a commanding climax.

On the single, Bonnie Bloomgarden shares: “I spent my whole life trying to change myself, trying so hard to be ‘normal’ and imagining that everyone else was entitled to a level of worthiness I hadn’t yet earned. The fire forced me to stop focusing on who I needed to become and start learning how to feel safe with who I already was. After a lot of therapy, which I was very, very lucky to have access to, I realized I wasn’t just recovering from trauma—I was becoming comfortable with myself. This song is about losing everything, being terrified, and finally discovering that even when I have nothing, I have all I need.”

On the video, director Dylan Mars Greenberg elaborates: “Immediately listening to this song I wanted to create something really kinetic and I imagined Bonnie flying through the sky. I have always been enamored by older methods of effects where they did effects in camera, and my entire life I had wanted to try using rear projection. Instead of a green screen, where you’re just on a big green wall and have to add the background in post, rear projection allows the environment to be projected in real time. We actually used a slightly different process provided by the studio, the Clubhouse, that used front projection, but either way we were able to do everything in the camera. I could see bonnie flying through the air through the eye of the camera in real time and I think that’s what really added to the dream quality of the film. My partner Glitter Macabre did Bonnie’s makeup which was also based on a few ideas I had, Glitter than created a sketch that really brought the look into a tangible space and then that sketch became a reality on Bonnie’s face. The makeup itself represents flight, the wings of her eyes are like the wings of a bird. The video is about Bonnie’s character, lost and flying alone, finding love and friendship in the sky.”