“Death Valley Girls are a gift to the world” – Iggy Pop

“An infectious rocker” – Rolling Stone, on “Disaster (Is What We’re After)”

“Best Garage Rock Band 2018” – LA Weekly

“Delivering a fuzzy, propulsive, dystopian dancefloor filler the kind you’d likely find clad in black and snuck into a Horrors DJ set.” – DIY Magazine, on “More Dead”

“A band on the brink of galactic explosion” – What Youth

“‘Darkness’  is a deeper and more distinctive album than you usually get with neo-neo-garage. Lots of those bands are making pop-punk with 60s production as camouflage, but not Death Valley Girls. They truly do like the scary stuff, and they don’t sing about summertime crushes—they sing about eating brains.” – LA Record

“a perfect balance of 60’s garage rock and punk” – Stereo Embers

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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 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 Rainsretains its intoxicating convocations across ten tracks, climaxing with the hypnotic guitar drones and cult-like chants of “TV In Jail On Mars”.

Death Valley Girls – “(One Less Thing) Before I Die”

Death Valley Girls – “More Dead”

Death Valley Girls – “Disaster (Is What We’re After)”