Death Valley Girls – Glow In The Dark

The re-issue of the Death Valley Girls ‘Glow In The Dark’ album, has to be one of the most interesting developments in recent years, an album that came along and seemed to disappear into the dark misty underworld of albums that should have been but some how never quite broke through into the mass psyche.  This can sometimes be a good thing, but in this case, you just want everyone to get it as you do.

Where, what and why are Death Valley Girls?  Formed initially by vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Bonnie Bloomgarden and guitarist Larry Schemel who both were drawn into forming a pack to make music after a traumatic few years that needed to be put to bed and fought back against. Music quit literally saved their lives and gave them a voice too. Joined by bassist Rachel Orosco and drummer Patty Schemel, the Los Angeles band then released the first album ‘Street Venom’ which was a look at the world from the eyes of someone who has experienced it in a very bad way, not long after came ‘Glow In The Dark’ a definite fight back against the establishment that creates a world that sees difference as a threat, a world built around a constrictive political construct.

Crashing headlong into this album, your drawn immediately by the sense of Iggy that sits at the pounding heart of it, a sound that never wants to be tied down, ‘Glow In The Dark’ the title track slides in first, or rather hits you like a rattle snake bite, we that see are infinitely more able to glow! 

Rock n Roll mayhem, fuzzy guitars, hypnotic beats and addictive melody and that’s just ‘Disco’. If you feel a need to be driven along a dirt track at night, fall into a crazy dystopian club of music and a sense of being, you’re somewhere near to getting this band.  

Stand out ‘I’m A man Too’ comes in mid way through, “its a mans world, that what you think!” Says so much, love the fact that this song uses a female crescendo of vocal to say this, its most definitely the most powerful of the ten tracks, not because its being angry, but because it uses simple melodic Rock n Roll to say something that is so perfectly true, I am I and I see myself in my own way.

With this potentially classic album, Death Valley Girls have made their way into the musical world in a way that will never make them a chart topper, they may never be a stadium band, nor will they ever be a band that should ever be forgotten either, with a sound that is uniquely interwoven with Cramps, Iggy, Joan Jett and plenty of glam to boot, ‘Horror Movie’ slams all those buttons so hard, your left spinning on the floor with the orgasm in your head about to explode.

White hot music made with a pure heart and all the punk energy you would ever need. 

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