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Listen to Death Valley Girls’ New Song ‘It’s All Really Kind of Amazing’
Death Valley Girls dropped their newest psychedelic single “It’s All Really Kind of Amazing.” [embedded content] ”Being in a body, experiencing reality as a human, is endlessly challenging,” singer Bonnie Bloomgarden said. “There’s so much darkness, suffering, sorrow, and division, it’s hard to get past. Sometimes, and often for too long, I just stay in the darkness, forgetting there’s anything else. And then sometimes, my guides remind me to look around, sometimes, just look around, at this Earth, at its infinite beauty and intricacy, and simplicity, and sometimes I can feel it, that it’s all really kind of amazing.” Paying homage to bands like the Feminine Complex and Shocking Blue, the Death Valley Girls revel in the feelings and groove of ‘60s psychedelia. Matching adolescent, beauti...
Death Valley Girls’ Waking Dream
Bonnie Bloomgarden of Death Valley Girls isn’t one for writing songs as much as accessing them. She’s fascinated by the Akashic records — the concept of a metaphysical plane that holds all information of the human experience past, present, and future. If you follow this philosophy within their latest record, all songs have already always been and will be written. “None of us know the record that well,” Bloomgarden confesses to me from Los Angeles. “We’re all gonna learn it at the same time that everyone else does.” While drawing from the same musical and aesthetic reservoir of punk, psychedelia, the occult, and the bizarre, Under the Spell of Joy is a far more experimental effort than the band’s previous records, due in equal part to the challenges of releasing a record during a pandemic a...
