{"product_id":"death-valley-girls-welcome-to-earth-pre-order","title":"Welcome to Earth **PRE-ORDER**","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e**PRE-ORDER WILL SHIP ON OR AROUND OCTOBER 2, 2026**\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.normanrecords.com\/records\/217447-death-valley-girls-welcome-to-earth\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eUK\/EU customers, please order from Norman Records\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e+ ARTIST \u0026amp; LABEL EXCLUSIVE LP LIMITED TO 350 COPIES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e+ PRESSED ON 180G HIGH MELT VINYL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e+ LP INCLUDES DOUBLE-SIDED GATEFOLD INSERT + DL CARD\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e+ FULL DOWNLOAD ON RELEASE DAY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e+ CD HOUSED IN A CD WALLET\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eCredits:\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten by Death Valley Girls \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLyrics by Bonnie Bloomgarden \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProduced by Mark Rains \u0026amp; Bonnie Bloomgarden \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEngineered \u0026amp; Mixed by Mark Rains at Station House (Los Angeles, CA) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMastered by Stephen C Common at Twin Hills Recording (El Paso, TX) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBonnie Bloomgarden - Organ\/Juno 60 and vocals \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBailey Chapman - Drums \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlana Amram - Bass \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLaena Myers - Guitar and vocals \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSarah Safaie - Saxophone \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGregg Foreman - Wurlitzer\/Rhodes\/Synth \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLaura Kelsey (The Kid) - Vocals \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKelsey Hart (Little Ghost) - Vocals \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHannah Pierce - Vocals\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003eTrack-listing:\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e1. Welcome to Earth\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e2. Basic Witch\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e3. Plant Magic\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e4. Sing for Yourself\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e5. Message From the Venus Flower\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e6. I Love You\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e7. Fire and Brimstone\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e8. Life So Far\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e9. How Losing Everything in the Fire Taught Me to Love Myself\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eThe road to Death Valley Girls’ \u003ci\u003eWelcome to Earth \u003c\/i\u003ebegins in the ashes of California’s Eaton Fire. After losing her home in Altadena and soon after her beloved dog Tommy, lead singer and songwriter Bonnie Bloomgarden confronted questions that resisted easy answers: What survives catastrophe? What remains after loss? How do you rebuild a life when the things that once defined it are gone? The album that emerged from those questions is among the most intimate and searching works Death Valley Girls have ever made.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 6.0pt 0in 6.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eThroughout the band's body of work, they have treated music as both celebration and search party. Albums like \u003ci\u003eGlow in the Dark, Darkness Rains, Under the Spell of Joy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIslands in the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e transformed their space rock sound into a vehicle for spiritual inquiry, finding flashes of transcendence amid everyday chaos. But \u003ci\u003eWelcome to Earth\u003c\/i\u003e feels distinct from its predecessors. It focuses less on escaping the world and more on understanding how to remain connected after devastation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 6.0pt 0in 6.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eWhat emerged was not a psych-punk record about loss, exactly, but about connection: the invisible threads linking people, animals, memories, landscapes, and lives across time. The album's title functions as both a greeting and a reminder, a welcome from the natural world to a species that has largely forgotten its place within it. Again and again, the songs return to the possibility that separation may be humanity's most persistent illusion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 6.0pt 0in 6.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eThat idea of connection extends beyond the songs themselves. After the fire, Bloomgarden found herself held aloft by the musicians who now make up Death Valley Girls: drummer Bailey Chapman, guitarist Laena Myers, bassist Alana Amram, saxophonist Sarah Safaie, and keyboardist Gregg Foreman - who devastatingly passed away not long after. They carried her through grief, through the band's first tour after the loss, and a year for her to be ready to write again. Their presence shaped not only the spirit of \u003ci\u003eWelcome to Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, but its sound: a more expansive, communal energy that feels inseparable from the people who helped bring it into being. \"I don't think this record could have been made with any other group of people,\" Bloomgarden shares. Tragically, the album also stands as the final Death Valley Girls recording to feature Gregg's contributions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 6.0pt 0in 6.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eYet for all its weighty questions, \u003ci\u003eWelcome to Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is remarkably joyful. \"Plant Magic\" turns renewal into a communal celebration. \"Basic Witch,\" featuring Seth Bogart, transforms heartbreak into hard-won self-awareness. \"Message From the Venus Flower\" and \"I Love You\" reimagine grief as evidence of an enduring connection rather than an ending. Musically, the album remains unmistakably Death Valley Girls: exuberant, melodic, curious, and gloriously open-hearted. Girl-group harmonies drift through hazy psychedelic passages; voices gather into communal chants; choruses arrive with the buoyancy of a collective sing-along. That communal spirit echoes throughout the album's many voices: twenty-three guest singers appear across the record, including a children's chorus whose bright presence lends the songs a fresh sense of wonder. Longtime collaborator Laura \"The Kid\" Kelsey returns throughout the album, as well as Little Ghost who was equally central to the process, contributing backing vocals throughout the record, creating the album artwork, and remaining a constant creative presence both in the studio and on the road. \u003ci\u003eWelcome to Earth\u003c\/i\u003e also features acclaimed jazz vocalist and multi-Grammy-nominated artist Gretchen Parlato. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 6.0pt 0in 6.0pt 0in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003eWhat makes \u003ci\u003eWelcome to Earth \u003c\/i\u003eso moving is its refusal to separate the cosmic from the deeply personal. Bloomgarden searches for meaning everywhere, following those threads wherever they lead. The result is Death Valley Girls' most intimate album, but also their most expansive: a record that looks directly at loss and somehow emerges more open to wonder. In the end, \u003ci\u003eWelcome to Earth \u003c\/i\u003eproposes a radical idea disguised as a danceable rock-and-roll record. It suggests that healing begins not when grief disappears, but when we recognize how deeply connected we have always been.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e**PRE-ORDER SALES ARE FINAL**\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e**VINYL PICS ARE MOCK-UP IMAGES. 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