Death Valley Girls - Darkness RainsAt the core of Death Valley Girls, vocalist multi instrumentalist Bonnie Bloomgarden and guitarist Larry Schemel channel a modern spin on Funhouses sonic exorcisms, ZZ Tops desert blasted riffage, and Sabbaths 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

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Short tracks like 'Fa Cé La' and 'Moscow Nights' have a pop punch while longer songs like 'Forces At Work' and the title track find different sorts of thrills from the unexpected way their uneasy jangles and insistent beats weave together in an ever tighter bundle of sound