Death Valley Girls Darkness Rains White Vinyl Edition

At the core of Death Valley Girls, vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Bonnie Bloomgarden andguitarist Larry Schemel channel a modern spin on Funhouse's sonic exorcisms, ZZ Top'sdesert-blasted riffage, and Sabbath's occult menace. On their third album DarknessRains, Death Valley Girls churn out the hypercharged scuzzy rock every generationyearns for, but there is a more subversive force percolating beneath the surface thatimbues the band with an exhilarating cosmic energy.Album opener "More Dead" is a rousing wake up call, with a hypnotic guitar riff and anintoxicating blown-out solo underscoring Bloomgarden's proclamation that you're "moredead than alive." The pace builds with "(One Less Thing) Before I Die", a distillate ofDetroit'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 offExile On Main Street and injects it with Zeppelin's devil's-note blues. Darkness Rainsretains its intoxicating convocations across ten tracks, climaxing with the hypnoticguitar drones and cult-like chants of "TV In Jail On Mars."