Death Valley Girls announce new album with lead single "What Are The Odds"

"What Are The Odds" is the first official outing from Death Valley Girls' new album, although they did release another track called "When I'm Free" on a double single with Le Butcherettes' "The Universe" in January, and is teamed with a Samantha Westervelt-directed video.

Bandleader Bonnie Bloomgarden says, "When we wrote "I’m a Man Too" we were trying to revisit No Doubt’s "I’m Just a Girl" but through a new lens. "What Are the Odds" is in the same way an investigation/revisitation of Madonna’s "Material Girl" but with a DVG spin. We love to think about consciousness, and existence, and we very much believe in some type of reincarnation, but also that this experience isn’t linear, there isn’t a past and future, there’s something else going on! What is it? Is it a simulation, are we simulated girls??!"

Islands In The Sky will follow Death Valley Girls' 2020 album Under the Spell of Joy, and was inspired by Bloomgarden's mysterious illness that left her bed-ridden from November 2020 to March 2021, "When I was sick I had to sleep most of the day," Bloomgarden says. "I kept waking up every few hours with an intense message to take care of the island, feed the island…I have no idea why, but making music for the island kept coming up."

"When I was sick I started to wonder if it would be possible to write a record with messages of love to my future self," Bloomgarden continues. "This was really the first time that I consciously thought about my own suffering and what future me might need to hear to heal. I struggled so much in my life with mental health, abuse, PTSD, and feeling like I didn’t belong anywhere. And I don’t want anyone - including my future self - to suffer ever again. I realised that if we are all part of one cosmic consciousness, as we [Death Valley Girls] believe, then Islands in the Sky could serve not only as a message of love and acceptance to myself, but also from every self to every self, because we are all one!"

Tracklist:

1. California Mountain Shake
2. Magic Powers
3. Islands In The Sky
4. Sunday
5. What Are The Odds
6. Journey to Dog Star
7. Say It Too
8. Watch The Sky
9. When I'm Free
10. All That Is Not of Me
11. It's All Really Kind Of Amazing