DEATH VALLEY GIRLS
ISLANDS IN THE SKY (SILVER/BLACK VINYL) - LP

UPC: 803238089317
Label: SUICIDE SQUEEZE
Format: LP
Release Date: February 24, 2023
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For the better part of a decade, LA’s scrappy rock n’ roll mystics Death Valley Girls have used their music as a means of tapping into a communal cosmic energy. On albums like Glow In The Dark (2016), Darkness Rains (2018), and Under the Spell of Joy (2020) the band challenged the soul-crushing banality of modern society and celebrated “true magical infinite potential” through a collage of scorching proto-punk riffs, earworm melodies, far-out lyrics, and lysergic auxiliary instrumentation. But on their latest album Islands in the Sky, Death Valley Girls’ songwriting mastermind Bonnie Bloomgarden uses the band’s anthemic revelries as a guidebook to spiritual healing and a roadmap for future incarnations of the self. And while these may be the loftiest aims of Death Valley Girls to date, the resulting music is also by far their most infectious and celebratory.

Side A:
1. California Mountain Shake
Bonnie Bloomgarden - Vocals - Organ
Larry Schemel - Guitar
Rikki Styxx - Drums - Vocals
Sammy Westervelt - Bass - Vocals
Gregg Foreman - Synth - Wurlitzer - Hammond Organ
Gabe Flores - Saxophone
Mark Rains - Percussion

2. Magic Powers
Sammy Westervelt - Vocals - Bass
Bonnie Bloomgarden - Organ - Vocals
Larry Schemel - Guitar
Rikki Styxx - Drums - Vocals
Gregg Foreman - Synth - Wurlitzer - Hammond Organ
Mark Rains - Percussion

3. Islands in the Sky
Bonnie Bloomgarden - Vocals - Organ
Larry Schemel - Guitar
Rikki Styxx - Drums - Vocals
Sammy Westervelt - Vocals - Bass
Gregg Foreman - Synth - Wurlitzer - Hammond organ
Little Ghost - Backing Vocals
Kelsey R - Backing Vocals
Pickle - Backing Vocals
Mark Rains - Percussion

4. Sunday
Bonnie Bloomgarden - Vocals - Organ
Larry Schemel - Guitar
Rikki Styxx - Drums - Vocals
Sammy Westervelt - Bass - Vocals
Gregg Foreman - Synth - Wurlitzer - Hammond organ
Little Ghost - Backing Vocals
Kelsey R - Backing Vocals
Pickle - Backing Vocals
Gabe Flores - Saxophone
Mark Rains - Percussion

5. What Are The Odds
Bonnie Bloomgarden - Vocals - Guitar
Larry Schemel - Guitar
Rikki Styxx - Drums - Vocals
Sammy Westervelt - Bass - Vocals
Gregg Foreman - Synth - Wurlitzer - Hammond Organ
Little Ghost - Backing Vocals
Kelsey R - Backing Vocals
Pickle - Backing Vocals
Mark Rains - Percussion

Side B:
6. Journey to Dog Star
Bonnie Bloomgarden - Vocals - Organ
Larry Schemel - Guitar
Rikki Styxx - Drums - Vocals
Sammy Westervelt - Vocals - Bass
Gregg Foreman - Synth - Wurlitzer - Hammond organ
Gabe Flores - Saxophone
Mark Rains - Percussion
Fred Armistan - Percussion
Brian Cosgrove - Marimba
Little Ghost - Backing Vocals
Kelsey R - Backing Vocals
Pickle - Backing Vocals

7. Say It Too
Bonnie Bloomgarden - Vocals - Organ
Larry Schemel - Guitar
Rikki Styxx - Drums - Vocals
Sammy Westervelt - Vocals - Bass
Gregg Foreman - Synth - Wurlitzer - Hammond organ
Gabe Flores - Saxophone
Mark Rains - Percussion
Brian Cosgrove - Marimba
Louisianna Purchase - Theremin
Little Ghost - Backing Vocals
Kelsey R - Backing Vocals
Pickle - Backing Vocals

8. Watch the Sky
Bonnie Bloomgarden - Vocals - Organ
Larry Schemel - Guitar
Rikki Styxx - Drums - Vocals
Sammy Westervelt - Vocals - Bass
Gregg Foreman - Synth - Wurlitzer - Hammond Organ
Little Ghost - Backing Vocals
Kelsey R - Backing Vocals
Pickle - Backing Vocals
Mark Rains - Percussion

9. When I’m Free
Bonnie Bloomgarden - Vocals - Organ
Larry Schemel - Guitar
Rikki Styxx - Drums - Vocals
Emily Retsas - Bass
Gregg Foreman - Synth - Wurlitzer - Hammond Organ
Gave Flores - Saxophone
Little Ghost - Backing Vocals
Kelsey R - Backing Vocals
Pickle - Backing Vocals
Mark Rains - Percussion

10. All That is Not of Me
Bonnie Bloomgarden - Vocals - Organ - Wurlitzer
Larry Schemel - Guitar
Rikki Styxx - Drums - Vocals
Sammy Westervelt - Vocals - Bass
Mark Rains - Percussion

11. It’s All Really Kind Of Amazing
Bonnie Bloomgarden - Vocals - Organ
Larry Schemel - Guitar
Rikki Styxx - Drums - Vocals
Emily Retsas - Bass
Gregg Foreman - Synth - Wurlitzer - Hammond Organ
Gabe Flores - Saxophone
Little Ghost - Backing Vocals
Kelsey R - Backing Vocals
Pickle - Backing Vocals
Boyfriend - Backing Vocals
Mark Rains - Percussion