The sky turns orange, and then the house goes with it. Bonnie Bloomgarden lost her Cali Altadena home to the Eaton Fire, and soon after, her dog Tommy. Most bands would have held a funeral. Death Valley Girls, the LA garage rockers, made an album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Welcome To Earth<\/em> opens with its title track like a hatch unsealing on a strange planet and ends with a song called \u201cHow Losing Everything In The Fire Taught Me To Love Myself.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n The singles show the weather range. \u201cMessage From the Venus Flower\u201d is grief with a disco ball in the corner, a funky, \u201980s-tinged love letter to a lost dog. \u201cBasic Witch\u201d is the opposite mood, muscular and impatient with the blame game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The record is crowded with voices: guest singers, a children\u2019s chorus, and jazz vocalist Gretchen Parlato. The new lineup of Chapman, Myers, Amram, Safaie and Foreman carries it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Death Valley Girls have always sounded like a s\u00e9ance in a garage, but this time the spirits answered with Welcome to Earth<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n