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Death Valley Girls - What Are the Odds from the 2023 album Islands in the Sky on Suicide Squeeze.

Los Angeles-based garage rockers Death Valley Girls are releasing their fifth record Islands in the Sky on February 24th via Suicide Squeeze. The follow-up to 2020\\u2019s Under the Spell Of Joy was recorded in a cabin in the California woods in early 2022 following a \\u201cmysterious illness\\u201d that left frontwoman Bonnie Bloomgarden bedridden from November 2020 to March 2021 which inspired much of the record.

\\u201cWhen I was sick I had to sleep most of the day,\\u201d Bloomgarden details in a press release. \\u201cI kept waking up every few hours with an intense message to take care of the island, feed the island\\u2026I have no idea why, but making music for the island kept coming up.\\u201d\\xa0

Our Song of the Day is the lead single off the record \\u201cWhat Are the Odds,\\u201d a rollicking riff-ripping scorcher that takes its inspiration from an unlikely source: Madonna. \\u201cIn \\u2018I\\u2019m A Man Too\\u2019 we were trying to revisit No Doubt\\u2019s \\u2018I\\u2019m Just A Girl\\u2019 but through a new lens,\\u201d explains Bloomgarden. \\u201c\\u2018What Are The Odds\\u2019 is in the same way an investigation/revisitation of Madonna\\u2019s \\u2018Material Girl\\u2019 but with a DVG spin.\\u201d

She continues on to say, \\u201cWe love to think about consciousness and existence, and we very much believe in some type of reincarnation, but also that this experience isn\\u2019t linear, there isn\\u2019t a past and future, there\\u2019s something else going on! What is it? Is it a simulation, are we simulated girls??\\u201d

The video for the song sees two versions of the band, one where they\\u2019re black hoodie-clad amongst a dreary LA landscape and the other a technicolor dreamscape of them lounging at a pool with red beehives. Which one is the simulation is anyone\\u2019s guess, but I\\u2019d personally rather live in the latter. Watch the Samantha Westervelt-directed video and read the full post at KEXP.org.

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