LA’s Death Valley Girls have released their latest full length, Islands In The Sky, via Suicide Squeeze Records. For the better part of a decade, LA’s scrappy rock n’ roll mystics have used their music as a means of tapping into a communal cosmic energy and challenged the soul-crushing banality of modern society through a collage of scorching proto-punk riffs, earworm melodies, far-out lyrics and lysergic auxiliary instrumentation. But on their latest album 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 the band to date, the resulting music is also by far their most infectious and celebratory. The seeds for Isla...