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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 innite 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.