- Record Label: Suicide Squeeze
- Release Date: Oct 2, 2020
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Oct 2, 2020Under the Spell of Joy allows Death Valley Girls the freedom to explore and the structure to tighten up as they communally dance and shake along the void.
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Oct 27, 2020Even as it revels in new-age proselytizing, Under the Spell of Joy never treats inner peace as a given—it’s something achieved by going on the offensive, by engaging in continual struggle.
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Classic Rock MagazineNov 18, 2020While the hazy creep if bleeding skull candles still waft through DVG's music this is essentially a white magick album, pulsating with light and sunshine and bursts of raga-punk exuberance. [Dec 2020, p.81]
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Oct 13, 2020The best thing about the album, and there are a lot of good things to it, is just how simple it is. Nothing feels overthought, calculated, or insincere. The songs come across like gentle gusts of warming wind when you are out late without a coat.
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Oct 6, 2020Death Valley Girls’ music is, for better or worse, calculatedly disposable, and the band make no real attempts to secure lasting hooks or forge undeniable melodies. What they do, they do well, and that’s more than enough reason to give Under the Spell of Joy a spin.
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Oct 6, 2020Under the Spell of Joy will no doubt be a Death Valley Girls staple. Come here if you want the feedback soaked groove of The Jesus and Mary Chain, or maybe something of a more punk Cranberries.
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UncutOct 2, 2020Their latest brings welcome variations in tone and tempo. [Nov 2020, p.29]
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Oct 2, 2020Under The Spell Of Joy didn’t quite achieve the transcendent ritualistic occurrence Death Valley Girls pointed to, but it should still win them a few zealous new converts.